Allahabad Court declines to stay arrest of accused in Bulandshahr violence

ALLAHABAD: Allahabad High Court on Friday declined to stay arrest of Satish, who is an accused in the recent Bulandshahr violence in which police inspector Subodh Kumar Singh and a local youth were killed.
On December 3, Inspector Subodh Kumar Singh and a local youth were attacked and killed in Bulandshahr by a rampaging mob, which was protesting against alleged cow slaughter in the area.
Dismissing the writ petition filed by Satish, a division bench comprising Justice Naheed Ara Moonis and Manju Rani Chauhan directed the petitioner to surrender before the court within a week in connection with the violence.
To recall, on December 4, 2018, SI Subhash Chandra, posted at Syan police station of Bulandshahr, had lodged an FIR in connection with the killing of Subodh Kumar Singh in mob violence. The petitioner was named in the said FIR.
The petitioner took the plea that the name of father of accused Satish has not been mentioned in the FIR. As a result, the police is harassing several persons in the area who are named as Satish. Taking the plea that he is innocent and police is falsely implicating him in the said matter, he requested the court to stay his arrest.
However, the state counsel opposed the petition on the ground that the petitioner is named in the FIR. Further, the case is a very serious one, as a police inspector along with a local youth have been killed and government properties damaged in the violence.