The Special Investigation Team (SIT) probe has further buttressed the theory that the Bulandshahr violence was indeed a well-orchestrated conspiracy as it has surfaced that those named and arrested for cow slaughter earlier were innocent.
Earlier, the local police had arrested four persons named in the FIR for cow slaughter and sent them to jail. The police are now preparing a report to get them released at the earliest.
Sources said that circle officer Raghvendra Mishra, who is a member of the SIT probing the Bulandshahr incident, found that all four accused — Sajid, Sarifuddin, Banne Khan and Asif — sent to jail were innocent.
The Special Task Force (STF) sleuths identified two persons — Sachin Kobra and Jani — and on finding their complicity in the cow slaughter with the help of CCTV footage, arrested them. Besides, the Bulandshahr police on Tuesday, claimed to have arrested three persons — Nadeem, Rais and Kala of Syana police station area — for cow slaughter in Mahav village.
A double barrel gun, a machete and a sharp-edged weapon were also recovered from them. One of their aides, Harun of Syana locality, managed to evade arrest.
The cops said that the accused owned up their crime and disclosed that they had killed a cow in a forest cover in Syana on the night of December 1. They disclosed that Harun shot the cow and later they skinned it and distributed the meat among them before throwing the carcass in a cane field.
The miscreants revealed that they had shot three cows in the night on December 2 and 3 and had thrown the carcasses and some meat in a field. They said that they took away the hides of the slaughtered cows.
The recovery of carcasses and meat from a field in Mahav village led to people taking to the streets in protest. While controlling the situation, inspector Subodh Kumar Singh fell to the bullet of one of the protesters while another youth Sumit was also killed.