nagpur the sand mafia in bhandara has created two whatsapp groups singham madam and r par 25 to share information about the location and movements of revenue and police department officials using code words to identify individual officers and their vehiclesin nagpur too some sand mafia have similar whatsapp groups and exchange and share information about patrolling officers in them toi also has some audio clips including one saying rto 4040 kapsi puliya pe rudra wale ka gadi pakad ke khadi hai bhailog brothers rto 4040 has intercepted the vehicle of rudra company at kapsi bridgesuch voice messages and code language used to communicate information in the whatsapp groups were unearthed after joint teams of police and revenue department intercepted the vehicle of sand mafia member shyam patle on thursday the action between dongarla and tamaswadi road saw patle trying to speed away with sand stolen from tamaswadi ghatsome 22 members of the two whatsapp groups who actively sent voice messages along with the creator of the group have been booked by tumsar police of bhandara district for sharing information in the unique case following the seizure of patles truckthe shocking modus operandi of the sand racketeers was unearthed after police took possession of patles mobile phone the two whatsapp groups were found along with voice messages of group members exchanging information about vehicle movements and location of revenue and police officialspolice said the sand mafia were particularly keeping watch on a young probationary officer working as subdivisional magistrate sdm in tumsar sources said the officer had been singlehandedly tackling the sand mafia the unnerved sand mafia had been following her movements sources said the racketeers keep watch on her residence and office toothe singham madam whatapp group was formed mainly to share the location of the young ias officer tois repeated attempts to contact the officer did not get a responsesources said patles vehicle was spotted by the young ias officer and police vehicle unnerved after seeing the officer patle started emptying the stolen sand consignment but was intercepted by the joint team of police and sdmsp lohit matani said the police had prior knowledge of the whatsapp groups as some cops were silent participants in it we have already rounded up key suspects and more would be arrested soon said matanithe investigation is now continuing at tumsar police station under assistant pi nitin madankar