Overview
- Police arrested Kusmi SDM Karun Dahariya and three private men — Vicky Singh alias Ajay Pratap Singh, Manjeet Kumar Yadav and Sudip Yadav — and booked them for murder.
- Ram, also known as Ramnaresh, died after the group allegedly beat three villagers near Hanspur during a purported move to curb illegal bauxite mining, while two others remain under treatment.
- Officials say the case was registered based on injured witnesses’ statements, eyewitness accounts, spot inspection and a postmortem under relevant BNS and BNSS provisions.
- Superintendent of Police Vaibhav Banker said the accused claimed they went to stop unlawful bauxite extraction as inquiries continue into the SDM’s actions and the involvement of private individuals.
- A medical note records that the SDM’s driver and an armed guard brought Ram to the Kusmi Community Health Centre, as protests by villagers and the Sarva Adivasi Samaj and partisan statements intensified scrutiny of the probe.