The Uttar Pradesh government on Saturday finally shifted Bulandshahr’s Senior Superintendent of Police Krishna Bahadur Singh, five days after the violence in Syana police station area over alleged cow slaughter that left two, including an inspector, dead.
Singh was attached to the DGP office on Saturday morning.
On Friday night, the government had transferred Circle Officer of Syana, Satya Prakash Sharma, and Chingravati police outpost in-charge Suresh Kumar.
All these officers were shifted on the basis of ADG (Intelligence) SB Shirodkar’s report which reportedly mentioned that had the cops acted promptly, the untoward incident could be averted.
However, what surprised many officers was that the government spared the District Magistrate and local administrative officers and took no action against them.
Not only this, the government posted controversial IPS officer Prabhakar Chaudhary as the new SSP of Bulandshahr even when the said officer not only failed to control sensational crimes in Sitapur, from where he was shifted to Bulandshahr, but also remained a mute spectator when his own staff was assaulted by some lawyers in Sitapur in his presence.
In another incident, the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) had served a notice on the government regarding inaction of Sitapur police in taking action against the accused involved in a rape attempt which led to an attack on the life of the victim.
Sources said that Chaudhary was given the charge of Bulandshahr as the government was under pressure of the lawyers, who were on strike demanding his removal from Sitapur.
The government decided to hit two birds with one stone by posting Chaudhary as SSP Bulandshahr and replacing him with LR Kumar, thus silencing the advocates and also sending a message that action had been taken against officials in the Bulandshahr incident.
The ADG (Intelligence) had submitted his report on the violence to the Chief Minister on Friday night after he returned from New Delhi.
Meanwhile, the sleuths of Special Investigation Team as well as Special Task Force (STF) failed to make any further arrest in connection with violence or the cow slaughter case.
The police have arrested nine accused in the Bulandshahr case but the main conspirator, Yogesh Raj, who is district convener of Bajrang Dal, is on the run, the police spokesman confirmed on Saturday evening.
Meanwhile, tension prevailed in Jalaun after recovery of cattle carcasses in the district on Saturday.
Superintendent of Police in Jalaun, Arvind Chaturvedi, claimed that the carcasses were of cows kept in a gaushala (shelter home).
He further said that the cattle in the gaushala, which houses 500 cows, were either suffering from diseases or injuries sustained during road accidents. He ruled out the incident as that of cow slaughter.
A total of seven cow and calf carcasses were found in the area on Friday evening and they were buried soon after, Chaturvedi said, adding that the carcasses appeared to be about 15 days old.
The district police chief said the cattle had died in the gaushala run by Rajendra Gaudas, a local villager.
He said that Gaudas had been instructed to ensure proper disposal of dead cows and calves in future or stern action would be taken against him.
Security has been beefed up in and around the village to avert any violence, the SP added.