Lucknow | Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Aditynath has announced a financial aid of 10 lakhs from the Chief ministers relief fund for the family of the youth who was shot dead during the Bulandshahr violence on Monday.
Local MLA Bhola Singh speaking on the death of the Youth said,” Administration has assured that Sumit’s name will be removed from the FIR. District administration has announced financial aid of Rs5 lakh to his family. Request for a job for a family member will be sent to the Chief Minister through District Magistrate.”
Meanwhile, four persons were arrested on Tuesday after police lodged an FIR against over two dozen people for rioting and murder in connection with the violence, officials said. As many as 27 people have been named in the FIR, registered around 3 am, while cases have been lodged against 50 to 60 unidentified people, they said.
A police inspector Subodh Singh who had probed the Akhlaq lynching case initially and a 20-year-old local Sumit Singh died of gunshot injuries on Monday as a rampaging mob protesting alleged illegal cow slaughter torched a police post here and clashed with cops, according to police.
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