Jaisalmer: Sorrow gripped the village of Girab in Barmer district during the cremation of a 22-year-old home guard, a resident of the village, who died in a road accident during the mines department’s efforts to seize a truck illegally transporting sandstone.
The home guard, Nemaram, was deployed at Hindaun city in Karauli district. He died while discharging his duty on Monday morning when the truck and two mines department vehicles were involved in an accident that has raised suspicions on the truck driver’s role in it.
Nemaram’s wedding was scheduled just 18 days later, and preparations were on at his house. But the news of his death drowned the entire village in grief. At his cremation held with government honours on Wednesday, hundreds of villagers gathered from nearby villages and shouted slogans demanding that he be accorded the status of a martyr and his family be given ex-gratia of Rs 1 crore. Nemaram was set to marry a 19-year-old girl from Khudani.
A mines department team had on Monday morning seized a truck carrying sandstone blocks illegally and directed Nemaram and two of his colleagues to take the truck to a nearby check post. Nemaram and two home guards were asked to go in the truck sitting beside the driver. Two vehicles of the mines department were also going along with the truck, one in the front of the truck and one behind it.
Sources said that when the truck hit the vehicle going in front of it, the home guard jawans asked the truck driver not to do so. But the truck driver allegedly said he would die and ensure that no one remained alive. After some distance the truck driver jumped out of the truck and made the truck fall from a bridge. Nemaram was stuck in the truck’s cabin and died while the two other home guards survived with severe injures.
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