A fortninght after the Jawaharbagh flare up, the Mathura Police arrested one of the master-minds of the violence - Chandan Bose from Basti. Bose was carrying a cash reward of Rs 5000 announced for his arrest by the state government.
Bose was the second in command in the cult after Ram Vriksh Yadav and was arrested with his wife Poonam Bose from Kaithvaliya hamlet
of Parusram area of Basti where he had taken shelter in his in-laws place.
Suspected to be involved in Naxal activities, Bose hails from Nosahibipada locality of Dhaba in ludhiana.
The police said that that Bose will be produced before a magistrate and taken to Mathura where he will be produced before the remand magistrate.
Earlier ADG (law and order) Daljeet Singh said that Ram Vriksh Yadav (already killed in the police operation), Chandan Bose, Girish Yadav and Rakesh Gupta were the main culprits of the Mathura violence and a hunt is underay for the remaining three.
On June 2, a police operation to free Jawahar Bagh from encroachers led by Ram Vriksh Yadav and members of his cult Azad Bharat Vidhik Vaicharik Kranti Satyagrahi. This soon culminated in a cross firing between the squatters and the police and left 29 persons including SP (City) Mukul Dwivedi and Station House Officer (Farah) Santosh Yadav dead.
Four days after the violence, the state government removed both the DM and SP of Mathura. The probe was initially handed over to Aligarh Divisional Commissioner Chandra Kant but later a judicial probe was ordered.
So far, 45 cases have been registered against 3,000 encroachers belonging to Azad Bharat Vidhik Vaicharik Kranti Satyagrahi cult.