Issue certificates to persons transporting cows to check lynching: Yogi Adityanath
At a meeting of the Gau Sewa Aayog, Yogi said that the Gau Sewa Aayog should also check illegal smugglings of cows and make regular inspections of cow shelters.
At a meeting of the Gau Sewa Aayog, Yogi said that the Gau Sewa Aayog should also check illegal smugglings of cows and make regular inspections of cow shelters.
The accused include Bajrang Dal leader Yogesh Raj, BJP leader Shikhar Aggarwal and VHP leader Upendra Raghav.
According to official figures, Harsh Choudhary is the seventh police personnel to die since the BJP came to power in the state.
So far, in its crackdown on the accused in the case, the police have managed to nab 36 persons while 50 others are still at large.
Agarwal is one of the main accused in the violence that followed over allegations of cow slaughtering in Syana on 3 December and was at large since then.
Police sources said accused Prashant Natt was arrested after his identification from a series of mobile phone-made videos of the violence.
His comments come days after the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) suffered a big blow as it lost power in its earlier ruled Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan.
Minorities Affairs Minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi used a Hindi proverb and described Khan's comments.
Over 80 former bureaucrats had accused Adityanath of bigotry and sought his resignation over the violence in which an on-duty police inspector, Subodh Kumar Singh, and a civilian, Sumit Kumar were killed.
Ajit Singh was in Muzaffarnagar for his Jansamvad Yatra when he targeted the BJP on the issue of Syana violence.