The Uttar Pradesh Government on Saturday transferred Bulandshahr Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Krishna Bahadur Singh to the DGP office in Lucknow, five days after two people, including police inspector, were killed in violence in Syana police station area in Bulandshahr over the alleged cow slaughter.
On Friday night, the UP Government had transferred the Circle Officer of Syana, Satya Prakash Sharma, and Chingravati police outpost in-charge Suresh Kumar.
Meanwhile, Armyman Jitendra Malik, known as Jitu Fauji, who is alleged to be behind the killing of inspector Subodh Kumar Singh, was arrested by the Army’s 22 Rashtriya Rifles (RR) from north Kashmir’s Sopore, where he is posted, on Saturday. Malik has been shifted to Srinagar.
“The accused soldier will be handed over to UP Police’s Special Task Force for further investigation,” said police.
UP Principal Secretary (Home) Arvind Kumar on Saturday said that the Bulandshahr SSP will be replaced by Sitapur SP Prabhakar Chaudhary.
Additional Director General (ADG) Intelligence SB Shiradkar had on Friday submitted a report on the Bulandshahr violence. The transfers are understood to be in line with the findings of the report on police handling of the situation.
On December 3, Inspector Subodh Kumar Singh and a local youth, Sumit, were killed in violence over the alleged cow slaughter incident in Bulandshahr. The inspector and his team had gone to the village to tackle the violence when they came under attack.
The UP Police has arrested nine accused in the Bulandshahr case but the main conspirator, Yogesh Raj, the district convener of the Bajrang Dal, is on the run.