Two Detained, Firs Against 87 People In Up Violence Over Alleged Cow Slaughter hindustantimes.com
The Uttar Pradesh Police on Tuesday detained two people and lodged two FIRs in Bulandshahr violence that left a cop and a civilian dead as protests over alleged cow slaughter spiralled out of control, reports ANI.
“An SIT has also been formed to investigate why the violence happened and why the police personnel left Inspector Subodh Kumar alone,” police official said.
One FIR is against the alleged cattle slaughter and the other against the violent protests which followed. The police have named 27 people in the FIR against protests, 60 unnamed people also mentioned.
Protesters clashed with police and set their vehicles and a police post on fire in the three-hour rampage on Monday after reports of the recovery of carcasses of cows at Mahaw village on Sunday night, said Prashant Kumar, the additional director general of police (Meerut zone).
Inspector Subodh Kumar Singh died of a gunshot allegedly fired by the mob. A 21-year-old man, identified as Sumit, too died after being hit by bullets.
Subodh Kumar Singh’s driver, Ram Ashrey, claimed the mob that attacked the police had firearms and when they fired, a bullet pierced the inspector’s left brow.
Ashrey said that he saw Singh lying injured while some people were firing from the nearby sugarcane field. “I drove the jeep in the field to rescue Singh with the help of three colleagues but a group of men surrounded us. The attackers pelted our jeep with stones. Another group continued to fire from the sugarcane field. We were left with no other option but to return with additional police force to rescue him (Singh),” he said
Singh was part of the initial investigation into the murder of Mohammad Akhlaq, a resident of Uttar Pradesh’s Dadri village who was lynched by a mob in September 2015 over another incident of alleged cow slaughter.
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