The
Army
jawan arrested
for his alleged involvement in the killing of a police inspector during mob
violence in
Bulandshahr was on Sunday produced before the judicial magistrate, who
sent him
to
jail
for
14
days, officials said.
The
Army handed over Jitendra Malik
to Uttar Pradesh Special Task Force team in Meerut late Saturday night.
Malik was interrogated by the crime branch during the day and also questioned by the Special Investigation Team constituted by the Uttar Pradesh government
to probe the incident, the city Superintendent of Police (Crime) said.
He was taken
to the district hospital
for a medical examination and later produced before the magistrate, who
sent him
to prison
for two weeks, the SP said.
On December 3, a mob of some 400 people rampaged through a village in
Bulandshahr apparently after cow carcasses were found in a jungle nearby. During the
violence, Inspector Subodh Kumar Singh and a 20-year-old man died of gunshot wounds.
Singh and his team had gone
to the area
to tackle the
violence when they came under attack by the mob.
Earlier in the day, the
UP government transferred Raees Akhtar, who was posted as additional superintendent of police (rural) in
Bulandshahr, six
days after two people died in mob
violence in the district following an alleged cow slaughter incident.
In a statement issued here, Principal Secretary (Home) Arvind Kumar said Akhtar has been transferred
to PAC Headquarters in Lucknow.
Manish Mishra, posted as additional superintendent of police at modern control room, Ghaziabad, has been made the new
ASP (rural) of
Bulandshahr.
On Saturday, the
UP government transferred
Bulandshahr SSP Krishna Bahadur Singh
to the DGP office in Lucknow. Kumar had said the senior superintendent of police will be replaced by Sitapur SP Prabhakar Chaudhary.
The government has transferred two other policemen of
Bulandshahr district - Circle Officer of Syana area Satya Prakash Sharma and Chingravati police chowki in-charge Suresh Kumar.
Additional Director General, Intelligence, SB Shiradkar submitted a report on the
violence on Friday. The
transfers are understood
to be in line with the findings of the report on police handling of the situation.
Inspector Singh, who died in the mob
violence, was the investigating officer of the
Dadri lynching case from September 28, 2015
to November 9, 2015. However, the chargesheet was filed by a different IO in March, 2016.
Police have arrested nine accused in the
Bulandshahr case but the main conspirator, Yogesh Raj, the district convener of Bajrang Dal, is on the run. In a video that surfaced online on Wednesday, Raj had claimed innocence.
Another inquiry by a government-constituted SIT is underway, and the team is going into the details and video footage of the incident, an official said.
Also, a magisterial probe has been ordered by the government.
The Uttar Pradesh government has been severely criticised by opposition leaders over law and order and
for its handling of the situation after the
violence.
Chief Minister
Yogi Adityanath on Friday said the
violence in
Bulandshahr was an "accident" and there did not happen any incident of mob lynching in his state. He, however, assured that no one responsible
for the
violence will be spared.
The Congress has slammed Adityanath's downplaying of the severity of an incident of mob
violence and said he has attempted
to "derail" the probe in the case.