Bulandshahr SSP shifted for ‘negligence’

Shahira Naim
Tribune News Service
Lucknow, December 8

Bulandshahr SSP KB Singh has been transferred for alleged negligence of duty along with Syana Circle Officer Satya Prakash Sharma and Chingrawati chowki in-charge Suresh Kumar for the December 3 violence killing Syana SO inspector Subodh Kumar Singh.

Read: Soldier 'involved' in Bulandshahr firing detained in J&K’s Sopore town

Sitapur SSP Prabhakar Chaudhury takes over as the new SSP of Bulandshahr while the outgoing SSP KB Singh as been attached to the DGP office in Lucknow.

The heads started rolling after ADG Intelligence SB Shirodkar submitted his report last evening, which was personally handed over to Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath by DGP OP Singh and Principal Secretary Arvind Kumar late last night.

While what the ADG Intelligence recommended in his report has not been made public the removal of the SSP, Circle officer and SI of Chigrawati police post indicts these officers posted in the district at the time of violence.

According to sources, the report had pointed out that the SSP took three hour to reach the trouble spot despite he being informed on the wireless of the collecting violent crowds.

He also did not reportedly send additional force to protect the officers combating the mobs in which the valiant inspector Subodh Kumar Singh lost his life.

According to reports, he had also not informed the Department of Home of the large number of Muslims collecting for the three-day religious congregation in the district, which concluded on the day of violence.

Unconfirmed reports suggest that the Army jawan Jitendra Malik alias Jeetu Fauji has been arrested and handed over to Uttar Pradesh Special Task Force soon after he joined his unit in Sopore in J&K.

He is being brought to Bulandshahr to be presented before the court.

One of the videos of the violent event, which has surfaced, shows the Army man pointing a gun at the inspector.

In the second FIR lodged by the police into the Bulandshahr violence on January 4,  Jeetu alias Fauji’ son of Rajpal Singh and resident of village Mahav where the carcasses were reportedly found, is listed as accused number 11 of the 27 named accused.

He is believed to have told his unit that he along with 30 others had gone to the police station to lodge an FIR.

Defending himself, Jeetu reportedly told the unit that physical violence had begun at the police station and he ran away and was therefore not present when the inspector was shot down.

His mother, Ratan Kaur, has however, categorically denied his son coming home for leave  saying that if evidence is brought of his being responsible for the killings she would personally strangulate him.