gurgaon police have arrested four men who were allegedly part of a group of bikers that ambushed and attacked mining department officials as they were raiding a location in sohna to check against illegal sand quarrying in aravaliscops said they arrested rafiq shahrukh ikram and irfan on thursday they also recovered the earthmover that the group of 1012 attackers had fled with after it was seized by the mining department team in sancholi village of sohna on wednesdaywe acted swiftly on the complaint against the accused who attacked officials during their crackdown on illegal mining we have arrested four accused so far and an investigation is underway to find out more about their associates gurgaon police spokesperson subhash boken said on fridayaccording to the complaint by mining inspector bhanupratap singh a team of 8 officials raided the village around 415pm on wednesday and found a jcb machine that they suspected was being used for illegal sand mining while the officials were returning a dozen men attacked the officials and took possession of the earthmover the team was accompanied by a cop but he was armed with a stick the group of men attacked the officials with sticks broke the windshield of the government car that the team was travelling in and fled with the earthmoverthe attack was reported almost exactly a year after haryana police dsp surender singh bishnoi was run over with a dumper truck as he was intercepting miners in nuhs pachagaon after the attack on wednesday the mining department has also requested the government to post senior cops who can carry guns to protect the officials