Bulandshahr violence: BJP, Bajrang Dal & VHP workers named in FIR; 4 arrested

ADG Anand Kumar said that according to reports he had received, Raj Kumar, a former chief of Mahav village, had informed the Syana police about the carcasses of five to six cows in his field. Inspector Subodh Kumar was attached to the same police station.

Violence in Bulandshahr over cow slaughter. PIC/PTI.

Bulandshahr (Uttar Pradesh):  ABP News has accessed the First Information Report which contains detail of those involved in the violence on Monday here. Prominently featuring in the list of the known suspect/unknown accused is Yogesh Raj, a resident of Nayabans. Raj is allegedly a member of the fringe group Bajrang Dal. Yesterday’s violence claimed lives of an inspector and a 21-year-old youth. In the visuals available with ABP News, Raj was seen exerting pressure on a cop at Syana police station to take action against those involved in allegedly throwing carcasses of cows in a field nearby. Raj is still at large and has not been arrested yet, informed police in press conference on Tuesday. Another prime accused in Satender Rajput. BJP Yuva Morcha leader Shikhar Aggarwal and Upendra Raghav of VHP are also named in the FIR and were reportedly at the forefront flaring up violence. Among the four arrested so far are Chaman and Devendra. The police have lodged FIR against 27 people who have been identified and 50 to 60 unknown people. Below is the list of people named as accused in Monday’s violence in Bulandshahr:

1. Yogesh Raj
2. Vishal Tyagi
3. Satendra Rajpur
4. Chaman
5. Devendra
6. Upendra Raghav
7. Ravi Saini
8. Ashishl Chouhan
9. Shikhar Aggawal
10. Rajkumar Pradhan
11. Jitu alias Fauji
12. Sachin
13. Ramesh Jogi

How the violence erupted: ADG Anand Kumar said that according to reports he had received, Raj Kumar, a former chief of Mahav village, had informed the Syana police about the carcasses of five to six cows in his field. Inspector Subodh Kumar was attached to the same police station. “The deceased inspector had gone to the village (around 9am) with (three) other constables and was talking to the villagers when some people loaded the carcasses on a tractor-trolley, took it to the highway, blocked it and attacked the Chingrawathi outpost,” the officer was quoted by the Telegraph, India. “Subodh rushed to the protest site where over 400 villagers from three villages, Mahav, Nayawas and Chingrawathi, had assembled by then. They attacked the police. Subodh suffered injuries and died on the way to hospital. The protesters continued attacking the police and fired from country-made pistols. The police too used force in self-defence.”

Four people have been arrested so far. We are not aware of which group is Yogesh Raj affiliated to. He has not been arrested yet: Anand Kumar, ADG (L&O), UP #BulandshahrViolence pic.twitter.com/MYOhWz801J

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Earlier, Anand Kumar said there was a presumption that Kumar was hit by a brick but post-mortem reports later confirmed that the police officer had died of a bullet wound. “It is clarified that Subodh Kumar Singh was the investigating officer of the Akhlaque lynching case of Dadri from September 28, 2015, till November 9, 2015,” he told reporters. Reports say Sumit, a second-year college student, had come to his village to prepare for physical test as he intended to join the Railways after his graduation. His family says he had no role in the violence but came in between the crossfire between agitators and the police. Sumit suffered a bullet injury and was declared dead during treatment in hospital. The violence barely four days before Rajasthan elections was contained by the police that ensured it does not take a communal turn. Hundreds of Muslims were returning from a huge religious congregation which was organised 25kms away from the site of clashes between the protestors and the police.  Anand Kumar said the “religious function was going on far away from the incident site and cannot be linked” Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath who had been in Rajasthan campaigning for BJP has not commented yet on his violence. Instead, using his Twitter account, last night Yogi tweeted pictures  of him and Chhattisgarh CM Raman Singh enjoying a light and sound show in Gorakhpur.