The Uttar Pradesh government on Saturday transferred Bulandshahr senior superintendent of police (SSP) Krishna Bahadur Singh to the director-general of police's (DGP) office in Lucknow, five days after two people, including an inspector, were killed in violence following an alleged cow slaughter incident.
Principal secretary (home) Arvind Kumar said the SSP will be replaced by Sitapur superintendent of police (SP) Prabhakar Chaudhary.
The government transferred two other policemen from Bulandshahr — circle officer Syana Satya Prakash Sharma and Chingravati police chowki in-charge Suresh Kumar.
Additional Director General (ADG) Intelligence S.B. Shiradkar had on Friday submitted a report on the violence. The transfers are understood to be in line with the findings of the report on the police's handling of the situation.
On December 3, Inspector Subodh Kumar Singh and a local youth, Sumit, were killed in violence over an alleged cow slaughter incident in Bulandshahr.
The inspector and his team had gone to the village to tackle the violence when they came under attack.
Singh was the investigating officer in the Dadri lynching case from September 28, 2015 to November 9, 2015. However, the chargesheet had been filed by a different investigating officer in March, 2016.
Police have arrested nine accused in the Bulandshahr case but the main conspirator, Yogesh Raj, the district convener of the Bajrang Dal, is on the run.
In a video that surfaced online on Wednesday, Raj had claimed innocence.
Another suspect is Jeetu Fauji, and a police team has been sent to Jammu to nab him, a senior officer said.
Another inquiry by a government-constituted special investigation team is underway, and the team is going into every minute detail and video footage of the incident, the officer said.
A magisterial probe had also been ordered by the government.
