Meerut: Over a month after violence in Bulandshahr which claimed life of an SHO and a protester on December 3, posters of Bajrang Dal west UP co-convenor Praveen Rathi and Bulandshahr violence main accused Yogesh Raj greeting people on Republic Day and Makar Sankranti have been put up in the region.The poster which prominently features Rathi and Raj has pictures of four other Bajrang Dal activists – Satish Lodi, Ashish Chauhan, Satendra Rajput and Vishal Tyagi, who were co-accused in the Bulandshahr violence.Talking to TOI, Rathi said, “The organisation is behind its workers who were wrongly accused. We have said this from the beginning that they are innocent. In due time, the court will also exonerate them.”After successfully evading arrest for a month, Yogesh Raj was arrested on January 3 last week from Hapur. Dubbed to be the main accused in the Bulandshahr violence, a massive manhunt was launched to trace him and other conspirators.The arrest came a day after the police arrested another prime accused, Kalua, in the case from the city's bus stand. He later confessed that he attacked inspector Subodh Kumar Singh with an axe.On December 27, police had arrested Prashant Nat, who allegedly shot the inspector dead after the axe attack.The violence had erupted after cow carcasses were allegedly found in a field near Mahav village in the district. The inspector and youth were killed during the violence.An FIR against 27 named people and 50-60 unidentified people was registered at the Siana police station for the violence at the Chingrawati police post.

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