Lucknow: Mathura District Magistrate Rajesh Meena and Senior Superintendent of Police Rakesh Singh have been removed following violence in the city on Thursday in which at least 24 people were killed.
Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav ordered the transfer of the two officers on Monday. Nikhil Chandra Shukla and Bablu Kumar are the new DM and SSP of Mathura respectively.
Two Uttar Pradesh Police officers were among the 24 killed in the violence which took place when police tried to evict encroachers from Jawahar Bagh in Mathura. The dead officers were Mathura Superintendent of Police (SP) Mukul Dwivedi and Station House Officer Santosh Kumar.
The violence is allegedly linked to the dispute between supporters of a so-called spiritual guru Jai Gurudev whose empire is estimated to be worth over Rs 12,000 crore.
His supporters belonging to a splinter group, known as Swadheen Bharat Andolan, clashed with the police on Thursday when the force tried to evict them from Jawahar Bagh which they had been illegally occupying since 2014.
Two days after the violence Uttar Pradesh Director General of Police Javeed Ahmed on Saturday confirmed that the mastermind behind the violence, Rambriksh Yadav, had also died in the clashes.
The violence is allegedly linked to the dispute between supporters of a so-called spiritual guru Jai Gurudev whose empire is estimated to be worth over Rs 12,000 crore.
His supporters belonging to a splinter group, known as Swadheen Bharat Andolan, clashed with the police on Thursday when the force tried to evict them from Jawahar Bagh which they had been illegally occupying since 2014.
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