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Policemen gather outside a police station following reports of mob violence at Chingravati village in Bulandhahr, India's northern Uttar Pradesh state, on December 3, 2018. - A violent mob rampaged through villages in northern India on December 3 after the discovery of suspected cow carcasses, setting vehicles ablaze and murdering two people including a senior police officer. (Photo by - / AFP) (Photo credit should read -/AFP/Getty Images)
A taxi driver was on Thursday arrested for allegedly killing a police inspector while a mob protesting against alleged cow slaughter in Bulandshahr Uttar Pradesh’s on December 3. The mob had attacked the police and set their vehicles and a post afire in a three-hour rampage that followed reports of the recovery of cow carcasses in the district.
Police said Prashant Nat, the taxi driver, has confessed to shooting inspector Subodh Kumar Singh, who was killed along with a local resident, Sumit, 21, in the violence.
The arrest comes over a week after Singh’s family blamed political pressure for the police’s failure to arrest the main accused in the case. Earlier, six of the 27 accused named in the case were arrested. As many as 19 others have been held after they were caught on video footages of the violence.
A special investigation team (SIT), which was constituted to probe the violence, arrested Nat near Noida. It had until late Thursday been unable to recover Singh’s missing pistol, which was allegedly used to kill him.
Nat’s arrest comes even as three key accused, Bajrang Dal’s Yogesh Raj, Bharatiya Janata Party leader Shikhar Agarwal, and Upendra Raghav, a Vishwa Hindu Parishad activist, named in the case remain on the run. On 14 December police had released posters with pictures of 23 people wanted for that violence.
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