Lucknow: Facing flak over the violence in Mathura that left 29 people dead, the Uttar Pradesh government today ordered the transfer of the District Magistrate and the Senior Superintendent of Police of Mathura.
District Magistrate Rajesh Kumar and SSP Rakesh Kumar Singh were transferred days after violence broke out when police tried to evict encroachers from Jawahar Bagh park in Mathura.
Singh has been replaced by SP Jalaun, Babloo Kumar, an official release said. However, the name of the new district magistrate is yet to be announced.
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The development comes on a day when the Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP) workers took to the streets in protest and clashed with police in an attempt to gherao the Uttar Pradesh Assembly building to protest against the ironic Jawahar Bagh incident in Mathura.
The BJP workers took out a march from party office and attempted to gherao the building and were stopped by police following which the clash broke out.
“Demonstrations were held at district headquarters across the state demanding resignation of PWD Minister Shivpal Singh Yadav and a CBI inquiry into the Mathura violence,” BJP spokesman Vijay Bahadur Pathak said.
In another development, the Supreme Court has admitted a plea filed by Ashwini Upadhyay, spokesman of the Delhi unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), seeking a CBI probe into the Mathura violence case. The case will come up for hearing in the apex court tomorrow
The apex court vacation bench comprising Justice P.C. Ghose and Justice Amitava Roy agreed to hear the matter on Tuesday after counsel Kamini Jaiswal mentioned it and requested an urgent hearing.
Notably, Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh had come down hard on the Akhilesh Yadav-led state government in poll-bound UP, virtually daring it to seek a CBI probe into the Mathura violence.
(With inputs from agencies)
