Bulandshahr ASP transferred, army jawan arrested
The UP government on Sunday transferred Raees Akhtar, who was posted as additional superintendent of police (rural) in Bulandshahr, six days after two people, including a police inspector, died in mob violence in the district following an alleged cow slaughter incident.
In a statement issued in the state capital, principal secretary (Home) Arvind Kumar said Akhtar has been transferred to PAC Headquarters in Lucknow.
Manish Mishra, posted as additional superintendent of police at modern control room, Ghaziabad, has been made the new ASP (rural) of Bulandshahr.
Meanwhile, an army soldier, Jeetendra Malik alias Jeetu, accused of killing the police inspector and arrested past midnight after his unit handed him over to the UP police for investigation, has been sent to 14-day judicial custody. “We’ve arrested Army jawan Jeetendra Malik. Preliminary interrogation has been done,” senior superintendent of police, Special Task Force, Abhishek Singh said, reported ANI news agency.
Malik was brought to Meerut by his unit based in Kashmir’s Sopore and handed over to the STF after completion of necessary formalities with local army officials. He was taken to Bulandshahr subsequently and handed over to the special investigation team probing the killing of inspector Subodh Kumar Singh in the violence that broke out in Bulandshahr last Monday. A local youth named Sumit Kumar was also killed in the violence.
“He (Malik) accepted he was there when the crowd started gathering. Prima facie, it has been found true. It’s not yet ascertained if he is the one who shot the inspector or Sumit. He said he went there with villagers, but denied pelting stones on police. Forensic (examination) of his mobile will be done,” Singh added. DGP OP Singh on Sunday said the situation in Bulandshahr is peaceful now.
In Shirdi to visit the Saibaba shrine, Singh said, “Peaceful atmosphere prevails in Bulandshahr. Law and order is good.”
On December 3, a mob of some
POLICE HAVE ARRESTED NINE ACCUSED IN THE BULANDSHAHR CASE BUT THE MAIN CONSPIRATOR, YOGESH RAJ, THE DISTRICT CONVENER OF BAJRANG DAL, IS ON THE RUN
400 people rampaged through a village in Bulandshahr apparently after cow carcasses were found in a jungle nearby. During the violence, inspector Singh and the 20-year-old man died of gunshot wounds. Singh and his team had gone to the area to tackle the violence when they came under attack by the mob.
On Saturday, the UP government transferred Bulandshahr SSP Krishna Bahadur Singh to the DGP office in Lucknow.
The government has transferred two other policemen of Bulandshahr district — circle officer of Syana area Satya Prakash Sharma and Chingravati police chowki in-charge Suresh Kumar.
Additional director general, Intelligence, SB Shiradkar submitted a report on the violence on Friday. The transfers are understood to be in line with the findings of the report on police handling of the situation.
Inspector Singh, who died in the mob violence, was the investigating officer of the Dadri lynching case from September 28, 2015 to November 9, 2015. However, the charge sheet was filed by a different IO in March, 2016.
Police have arrested nine accused in the Bulandshahr case but the main conspirator, Yogesh Raj, the district convener of Bajrang Dal, is on the run. In a video that surfaced online on Wednesday, Raj had claimed innocence.