Bulandshahr Accused army jawan sent to jail

Lucknow | Sunday | 9th December, 2018

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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. 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. 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. 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. 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..