Police officials transferred over Uttar Pradesh violence
Lucknow, India - The government in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh on Saturday transferred senior police officials for their failures to stop a violence over dead cows, in which one police official and a civilian were killed.
Bulandshahr Senior Superintendent of Police Krishna Bahadur Singh was transferred on Saturday, a state home department official said.
Two more police officials have also been transferred in connection with the case.
Circle officer Satya Prakash Sharma and Suresh Kumar, the in-charge of Chingravathi police chowki, have been transferred ‘for their failure in responding in time to the situation’.
The decision was taken on the basis of a report submitted by the additional director general of police S B Shiradkar.
The home department official said they have been transferred for not being fast enough in reacting to the situation that arose after some rightwing activists found some animal carcasses in a field and took them on tractortrolleys to block a road.
Police inspector Subodh Kumar Singh and the civilian from Chingravathi village, Sumit Singh, were killed in the mob violence that followed.
State Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has termed the Bulandshahr incident an ‘accident’.
He had earlier said the incident was the result of a ‘big con- spiracy’ but at a media event in New Delhi on Friday he said that the incident was an accident.
“No mob lynching happened in Uttar Pradesh, what happened in Bulandshahr is an accident,” he said.
The police has arrested nine accused but the main conspirator Yogesh Raj, the district convener of the Bajrang Dal, a rightwing outfit, continues to be at large.