Bulandshahr: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MLA, Devendra Singh Lodhi, has created controversy by saying that police inspector Subodh Kumar shot himself when the mob got too aggressive during Bulandshahr violence.
Speaking to news agency ANI, Devendra Singh said, “While trying to save himself, the cop became helpless and fired at himself in haste. He was not targeted by anyone; it was a mob that got aggressive as the police were not filing an FIR.”
Inspector Subodh Kumar Singh and a 20-year-old civilian, Sumit Kumar were shot dead during mob violence that broke out at Chingrawathi in Bulandshahr on December 3, after cow carcasses were found scattered in a field near the village. Post-mortem revealed that a bullet was stuck inside the skull of Subodh Kumar and there were also six marks of injuries by stones.
Prashant Natt, one of the prime accused in the case was arrested on Thursday from Sikandrabad, and produced in the court of the additional chief judicial magistrate.
Bulandshahr Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Prabhakar Chaudhary said, “He was not named in the FIR but was held based on local intelligence, eyewitness accounts and assessment of the video footage that was gathered. During the probe, we even recreated the crime scene.”
Police said that Natt has confessed that he shot at Singh. He is sent to 14-days judicial custody.
