Yogi wants cow slaughter probed, calls it ‘conspiracy’

Chief minister Yogi Adityanath convened a meeting of senior officers, including chief secretary Anoop Chandra Pandey and director general of police OP Singh, on Tuesday to get feedback about the Bulandshahr violence in which a police inspector and a village youth were killed. He asked the officers to ensure strict action against all those involved in cow slaughter.

“The Bulandshahr incident was part of a larger conspiracy and all those involved in it should be arrested,” the chief minister said without elaborating.

The violence began around 11am on Monday after protests against alleged cow slaughter spun out of control and mobs of so-called cow vigilantes went on a three-hour rampage, clashing with security forces and setting vehicles and a police post on fire in Bulandshahr, 130 km from Delhi. Five officials were injured in the scuffle. In the melee, inspector Subodh Kumar Singh, who was part of the initial investigation into the 2015 murder of Mohammad Akhlaq in Dadri over allegations of cow slaughter, and a 21-year-old man, identified only as Sumit, died. Singh was first injured in the stone pelting by the mob and shot later. Sumit was part of the mob.

The chief minister will meet the widow of inspector Singh on Thursday.

Amid the furore, director general of police (DGP) OP Singh on Wednesday said the state police

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