Law on its weak wicket!

The recent brazen attack on police and mining officials by illegal sand miners in Jammu is not an isolated incident—it is a glaring symptom of entrenched lawlessness and a deep-rooted failure of governance.

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When officials enforcing the law are met with stones, intimidation, and violent resistance, it exposes a dangerous culture of impunity that threatens not just the environment, but the very foundation of civil society.

Recently, right in the heart of Jammu city, a mob of nearly 60 to 70 individuals allegedly from the Gujjar community-launched a violent assault on a joint team of law enforcement and mining officials who were attempting to stop illegal sand mining in the Tawi River. The violence was not only aggressive but shocking in its brazenness-police vehicles were vandalized, tractors and mining equipment were seized, and disturbingly, even children as young as ten were involved in stone-pelting. Such naked defiance of the law is not just alarming-it is absolutely intolerable.