4 Arrested in Bulandshahar Cop Murder

Lucknow : An activist of a prominent right-wing group is Accused No. 1 in the frightening murder of a police officer by a mob that chased his car and shot him in violence yesterday over the slaughter of 25 cows in Uttar Pradesh's Bulandshahr. Yogesh Raj, a member of the fringe group Bajrang Dal, is missing while four have been arrested for the killing.

Yogesh Raj was the complainant in a separate case of cow slaughter after 25 carcasses were found in the forests in the area last evening. He is seen in a video in which a police officer tries to placate him.The police were targeted when they tried to clear a road blocked by a mob protesting with a truck where the animal carcasses had been gathered. Hundreds chased the policemen, threw stones at them and burnt down their police outpost and cars.
Inspector Subodh Kumar Singh, who was trying to control the wild mob, was wounded in the head with a stone. As his driver bundled him into his SUV and tried to take him to hospital, the mob followed the car, cornered it in a field and shot the police officer. I ran for my life. I am not sure what the mob did when they reached the jeep, the driver said later.