Five days after the bloody police-satyagrahi clash at Jawahar Bagh that left 29 dead, including two police officers, and scrores
seriously injured, the UP government finally removed the DM and the SSP of Mathura.
CM Akhilesh Yadav tweeted on Monday morning : "DM / SSP Mathura have been transferred. New incumbents will join soon."
later an official release confirmed that DM Rajesh Kumar and SSP Rakesh Kumar Singh were shifted and put in the waiting list. They were replaced by Special Secretary, PWD Nikhil Chandra Shukla and SP of Jalaun, Babloo Kumar respectively.
Formerly SSP STF (West), AK Tripathi has been asked to join as SP in Jalaun.
Meanwhile, a dozen bodies including that of ring leader Ram Vriksha Yadav were cremated with their families refusing to take custody of their bodies on Monday.
On Monday, Comjissioner of Aligarh division, Chandrakant started recording statement of administrative officials. He is probing on seven points which encompass the reasons leading to
the violence, whether the plan to get the encroached land vacated was fool-proof or not, whether necessary steps were taken to counter, whether Intelligence inputs were sufficient to take necessary steps, the role of administrative and supervisory officials and how such incidents could be averted in future.
Since the violence on June 2, 45 cases have been registered against 3,000 encroachers belonging to Azad Bharat Vidhik Vaicharik Kranti Satyagrahi and 378 persons have been arrested.
The violence at Jawahar Bagh claimed the lives of SP (City) Mukul Dwivedi and SHO, Farah, Santosh Kumar. The cult leader Ram Vriksha Yadav was also killed during the operation.
The Akhilesh Yadav government came under fire over the incident. Union Home minister Rajnath Singh claiming breakdown of law and order in the state, had asked Yadav to write to the Centre for a CBI probe into the incident.