jaipur two persons involved in alleged transporting of illegally mined sand bajri were killed while four others including two police constables were injured during a fierce shootout between the police and mining mafia in dholpurs basai dang village on friday eveningthe sources in dholpur police told toi that at 430pm a police party comprising commandos of quick response team qrt and local police intercepted a cavalcade of tractors transporting the illegally mined sand even as the police party tried to stop the mining mafia the criminals reportedly attacked cops by firing at them the police teams quickly retaliated a gunbattle soon ensued in which two accused were injured they were being taken to the hospitals in dholpur and bharatpur but succumbed to injuries en route said mridul kachawa superintendent of police dholpur the control room in dholpur moved reinforcement teams drawn from nearby police stations to the shootout sitethe policemen including shyamveer singh posted as constable at basai dang and ishwar singh working as constable in the qrt have sustained bullet injuries and are undergoing treatment kachawar said police personnel in large numbers have been deployed at the government hospital in dholpur district headquarters in anticipation of a possible law and order situation a combing operation was underway in dholpur till late night dholpur has long been notorious for illegal mining so much so that firing between the police and people involved in the illegal trade have had several shootouts in recent times in april this year a police constable was shot in the shoulder by mining mafia when the former tried to stop a vehicle illegally transporting sand last year a deputy superintendent of police and his driver were critically injured after they were attacked by the mining mafia in a similar fashion