The Uttar Pradesh Police has arrested a wanted member of a sand mining mafia after a brief encounter in Moradabad district, days after it had made an unsuccessful attempt to nab him from Udham Singh Nagar district of neighbouring Uttarakhand.
An FIR was filed against Zafar at Moradabad s Thakurdwara police station on September 13 after he and his associates assaulted a team led by Thakurdwara Subdivisional Magistrate Parmanand that was inspecting dumpers carrying sand near the Uttarakhand border.