New Delhi, Jan 3 (IT): Yogesh Raj, the main suspect in the deadly violence that broke out last month in
Bulandshahr, was arrested last night. The local Bajrang Dal leader is among the 27 suspects named in an FIR.

A police inspector, Subodh Kumar Singh, and a civilian, Sumit Kumar, were killed on December 3 in the mob violence that broke out in Bulandshahr's Siyana area after cattle carcasses were found strewn outside a village.

A man suspected to have attacked Subodh Singh with an axe, and another who allegedly shot him after the axe attack, were arrested on January 1 and December 27, respectively. An Army jawan, Jitendra Malik, has also been arrested.

A BJP MLA recently said Subodh Singh shot himself. The inspector's son, Shrey Singh, said: "The autopsy report says he was shot from a distance of seven to eight metres. How can someone who shot himself do it?"

Inspector Subodh Singh was the investigating officer in the 2015 Akhlaq lynching case.

An umbrella body of various human rights organisations has demanded that the Supreme Court should monitor the Special Investigation Team probe into the violence in Bulandshahr.