More on this comes below<\/em><\/strong>).<\/p>\nThe UP government had also ordered a separate SIT probe, whose report is also awaited.<\/p>\n
The police have arrested four Muslim men \u2014 Sarfuddin, Sajid, Asif and Nanhe \u2014 under sections of the UP Prevention of Cow Slaughter Act 1955 for cow slaughter, despite holes in Yogeshraj\u2019s version.<\/p>\n
He had first claimed to have seen the men slaughtering the cow, but later in a video released from hiding, stated that he went to the spot where the cow carcasses were hung after receiving a phone call. The men named in his complaint also included two minors, aged 11 and 12, and three men who live in Delhi-NCR.<\/p>\n
Earlier, Additional Superintendent of Police (Bulandshahr) Rayees Akhtar told The Indian Express (IE): \u201cOur main concern at this moment is to find out who killed those cows. After all, it was the killing of the cows that led to the protest, which resulted in Inspector Subodh Kumar Singh\u2019s murder. Our belief is that once we solve that case, it will throw light on how the murder occurred. The cow-killers are our top priority. The murder and rioting case is on the backburner for now.\u201d<\/p>\n
So far, police have arrested four persons \u2014 Chaman, Devendra, Ashish Chauhan and Satish \u2014 for their alleged involvement in Singh\u2019s murder. But they are yet to nab the main accused, Yogeshraj Singh, a Bajrang Dal activist who is on the run.<\/p>\n
\u00a0<\/strong>Local BJP functionary accused in Inspector\u2019s killing blames him for violence, alleges he was corrupt<\/strong><\/p>\nMeanwhile, a day after Yogeshraj posted a video on social media claiming his innocence, another video of Accused No.9 in the FIR on Singh\u2019s killing \u2014 BJP’s Syana unit youth wing president Shikhar Agarwal \u2014 surfaced in which he alleged that the slain SHO had threatened him.<\/p>\n
Agarwal, a resident of Siyana, claimed in the video: \u201cI was told of a commotion in Mahwa and when we reached there, I saw that cows had been slaughtered. We put the carcasses in the tractor and went towards Chingravati Police Station where we were stopped by Subodh Kumar Singh. He asked us to bury the carcass there and threatened to shoot us. I informed Sub-Divisional Magistrate of Siyana, Avinash Chandra Maurya, about the conversation who assured that an FIR will be filed.\u201d<\/p>\n
Agarwal claimed that the SHO was to blame for the violence. \u201cIt was only because Subodh Kumar Singh refused to file an FIR that things got out of hand and a riot-like situation was created.\u201d<\/p>\n
Questioning Singh\u2019s integrity, Shikhar Agarwal said: \u201cEveryone in Siyana knows\u2026 I have full faith in the Yogi Adityanath government\u2026 If I am guilty I will be hanged, if not I will go free.\u201d<\/p>\n
Asked about Agarwal\u2019s claims, Bulandshahr SP (City) Pravin Ranjan Singh told IE: \u201cAn accused will say whatever he has to say in his defence. It does not matter. Subodh was an honest officer.\u201d<\/p>\n
Local saffron leaders had wanted Inspector transferred<\/strong><\/p>\nA three-month-old letter that has now surfaced indicates that local saffron leaders had sought the officer’s transfer, reported The Times of India (TOI).<\/p>\n
In a letter written to Bulandshahr MP Bhola Singh on September 1, BJP functionaries of Syana had accused the officer of putting obstacles in the way of Hindus’ religious functions.<\/p>\n
Sanjay Shrotiya, BJP’s Bulandshahr city general secretary and one of the signatories, confirmed that such a letter had been sent to the local MP against the “high-handed attitude” of the Syana SO, the TOI report said.<\/p>\n
The handwritten letter was reportedly signed by six BJP leaders of Syana, including local block pramukh Pramendra Yadav.<\/p>\n
Alongside this, according to a report in The Hindustan Times (HT), Inspector Subodh Kumar Singh\u2019s wife, Rani, told chief minister Yogi Adityanath on Thursday her husband, who was handling complaints against cow slaughter, used to get threatening calls over the phone.<\/p>\n
In a video circulated to the media after her meeting with Adityanath, Rani, who met the UP CM along with her sons in Lucknow, is heard saying, \u201cThere is one more thing, Sir. My husband used to call me to the police station (Syana) and I used to go there. The last time when I was there, three people had been arrested for cow slaughter.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThere was a call from Syana MLA (Devendra Singh Lodhi) when my husband was in the bathroom. He asked me to pick up the call and inform that he was inside,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n
However, the HT report said, there is no clarity about what she said further as the video was disconnected \u2013 significantly, just at the crucial point.<\/p>\n
A senior officer present at the meeting said she only informed the chief minister about the threats her husband used to receive and there was nothing beyond that.<\/p>\n
\u201cI have informed the chief minister about all this and he has assured us of a fair inquiry,\u201d Rajni said while speaking to the Hindustan Times over the phone after the meeting.<\/p>\n
Slain Inspector was key witness in Dadri lynching case<\/strong><\/p>\nThe murder of police inspector Subodh Kumar Singh in Bulandshahr will affect the Dadri lynching case, the counsel for the victim Mohammad Akhlaq told News18.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe was one of our most important witnesses. His murder will definitely be a setback,\u201d said Yusuf Saifi, who has been fighting the case in a trial court on behalf of the victim\u2019s family. Singh was witness number 7 in the case.<\/p>\n
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