A police inspector and a villager were killed after protests over alleged cow slaughter swirled out of control in Uttar Pradesh’s Bulandshahr district and a mob attacked security personnel who opened fire during the melee, officials said on Monday.<br /><br />Protesters, including members of right-wing groups, clashed with securitymen and set their vehicles and a police post on fire in the three-hour rampage after reports of cow slaughter at Mahaw village on Sunday night, said Prashant Kumar, the additional director general of police (Meerut zone).<br /><br />Inspector Subodh Kumar Singh died of injuries, probably caused by a blunt object, he said. A 21-year-old man, identified as Sumit, died of gunshots, Kumar said, adding that only the post-mortem would reveal if the bullets were fired by police.<br /><br />Singh was involved in the investigation in the murder of Mohammad Akhlaq, a resident of Uttar Pradesh’s Dadri village who was lynched by a mob in September 2015 over another incident of alleged cow slaughter.
