Janjivan Bureau / Lucknow : Bulandshahr Coordinator of Bajrang Dal Yogesh Raj is the main accused in the violent killing of Syana Station House Officer Inspector Subodh Kumar Singh and the killing of a member of the lynching crowd, Sumit.
While Raj is still to be arrested the district police have already arrested three of his associates and Bajrang Dal activists–Chaman, Devendra and Ashish Chauhan.
According to the police, two cases have been registered in the matter–one for the murder of the police station Syana SO Subodh Kumar Singh and Sumit along with the ransacking of the police post and damage to public property.
The other case is about the wider conspiracy to create trouble by the alleged cow slaughter.
Sources point out that the appointment of a probe to be headed by ADG Intelligence S B Shirodkar who is expected to present his report within 48 hours shows the seriousness of the police department to get to the bottom of the conspiracy in which a police officer has become a victim of mob violence.
Shirodkar is on the spot-making enquiries and interrogating the accused already arrested, inform policemen posted in Syana police station.
The arrests and hunt for the remaining accused started after the filing of the second FIR by the colleague of the slain SO and Syana police station sub inspector Subhash Singh.
Meanwhile, the deceased policeman’s son Abhishek said his father wanted him to be a good citizen who doesn’t incite violence in society in the name of religion.
“My father has lost his life in this Hindu-Muslim dispute. Whose father is next?” he asked tearfully. Abhishek said he last spoke to his father when he phoned him to inquire whether he had studied and eaten.
“My brother was killed in a police conspiracy as he was probing a cow slaughter case… He should be given martyr status and a memorial should be constructed in his name in our native place,” Sunita Singh told reporters.
“The cow is our mother, I accept it. My brother has give his life for her. The CM used to chant ‘gau.. gau.. gau’.. Why can’t he come for ‘gau raksha’,” an emotional Sunita Singh asked, hitting out at Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath.
The FIR has 27 named accused and another 60 unnamed accused for Monday’s violence and killing of SO Subodh Kumar Singh and the larger conspiracy to create communal tension by the alleged cow slaughter.
While three arrests have been confirmed, the police are in search of the remaining accused, including the mastermind, Yogesh Raj.
Interestingly, immediately after the discovery of the reported cow remains in the fields of former gram pradhan in village Mahav Raj Kumar, the main accused Yogesh Raj had lodged an FIR naming five local Muslims all members of the local masjid committee.
However, preliminary investigations revealed that none of those mentioned in his FIR were present in the village for the last few days as they were participating in the three-day ijtema (congregation of Muslims’ for throwing light on the Holy Quran and its significance for achieving salvation) being held in Bulandshahr where 25 lakh Muslims had gathered.
According to the Syana Nagar Palika Chairperson Rais Malik SO Subodh Kumar Singh’s martyrdom resulting in the averting of a major conspiracy to create trouble on the last and concluding day of the ijtema when people were to disperse.
Mischief makers led by Yogesh Raj had carried the remains of the cow in a tractor-trolley and blocked the main Bulandshahr-Garh road on which many people from the ijtema had already started returning.
“By not permitted the blocking of the main highway the SO had defeated the design of the Hindutva trouble makers planning to brew communal tension. But in the process he was targeted and first brutally injured in the brick batting and then shot dead by the mob,” said the Chairperson of Syana Nagar Palika a theory, which has now been confirmed by the ADG Law and Order Anand Kumar as well.
The second person to die, Sumit was among the mob spreading violence. But if he became a victim of a police bullet or the firing from the mob is yet to be established, said the police.
Meanwhile, in a tweet, the Bulandshahr Police have requested not to spread false news. It has pointed out that the ijtema has successfully concluded and was in no way related to the violence in Bulandshahr on Monday, which had occurred under Syana police station area around 40 to 50 kilometres away.
The body of the slain inspector, Subodh Kumar Singh, has been taken to his ancestral district of Etah for his last rites after ADG Meerut and other colleagues paid him rich tributes in Bulandshahr.
In a late night decision, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath announced a compensation of Rs 40 lakh for his widow and another Rs 10 lakh for his aged parents.
