Chandrapur: Police have invoked the stringent Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA) against alleged sand mafia members accused of murdering a man over money dispute at the Bamarda sand ghat in Warora taluka earlier this month.Pankaj Wankhede, in his complaint filed on March 1 at Warora police station, alleged that a group of men attacked him and his associates with swords and wooden sticks. The assault led to death of Bharat Dayanand Nagpal.
Police have arrested 12 accused in the case, most of them residents of Wardha district, while one is from Seoni district in Madhya Pradesh.Police found that the accused were allegedly part of an organised criminal network involved in illegal sand mining, transportation, gambling and other unlawful activities. Special Inspector General of Police, Nagpur Range, later approved a proposal to invoke MCOCA against the gang.
