The move comes even as they are investigating if the protest over alleged slaughter of a cow, was aimed at sparking larger communal tension.
The Bulundshahr police arrested four people in connection with Monday's clashes and subsequent death of a cop and a local youth. The move comes even as they are investigating if the protest over alleged slaughter of a cow, was aimed at sparking larger communal tension. Police said they were also hunting down an alleged Bajrang Dal activist.
The violence left Station House Officer (SHO) Subodh Kumar Singh and a passerby dead. In Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath called a high-level meeting to review the law and order situation. Angered by the discovery of the alleged cow carcasses strewn in a nearby jungle, a mob of some 400 people fought pitched battles with police on Monday in Siana area of Bulandshahr district. They set fire to dozens of vehicles, hurled stones and also fired shots at police, who retaliated.
The National Human Rights Commission issued notices to the UP government and the director general of police over the incident. Police said on Tuesday that four persons were arrested, but the main suspect, Bajrang Dal district convenor Yogesh Raj, was on the run. They said 27 people have been named in the FIR, while cases have been lodged against 50-60 unidentified people. Of the 27, at least four are workers and functionaries of right-wing organisations such as Bajrang Dal, the cops added.
Additional Director General of Police (Law and Order) Anand Kumar told reporters that six police teams were working on the case and trying to identify the accused by monitoring video footage. "Tension has eased in strife-torn Bulandshahr and efforts are on to ensure there is no trouble in future," he said in Lucknow. Though both Singh and Sumit died of gunshot injuries, the inspector, who was posted at Siana Police Station, also received injuries from hard and blunt objects, Kumar said.
Singh's body, draped in the tricolour, was given a gun salute. From Bulandshahr, the body was taken to his ancestral home in Etah. Demanding "martyr" status for the slain inspector, who was one of those who initially probed the 2015 lynching of Mohammed Akhlaq, his sister alleged his killing was a conspiracy. "My brother was killed in a police conspiracy as he was probing a cow slaughter case... He should be given martyr status and a memorial should be constructed in his name in our native place," Sunita Singh told reporters.
In Chingrawati village, Sumit's family refused to initiate his last rites until the government assured Rs 50 lakh compensation, pension to his parents, and a police job to his kin.
The BJP legislator said locals from the two villages of Mahav and Chingravathi had found the carcass of a cow and reported the matter to the police on Monday morning. Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) supremo Mayawati blamed the "irresponsible and wrong" policies of the BJP government for the violence.
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