With the incident drawing a great deal of media attention, heads have rolled in the Lucknow police. UP government has removed DCP Lucknow East Prabal Pratap Singh, ADCP Amit Kumawat, and ACP (Gomtinagar) Anshu Jain from their positions with immediate effect. Additionally, Gomtinagar Inspector Deepak Kumar Pandey, Samtamulak Chowki In-charge Rishi Vivek, Inspector Kapil Kumar, Constable Dharamveer, and Constable Virendra Kumar have been suspended.
With the Opposition targeting the government over the incident, UP CM Yogi Adityanath made a statement regarding it in the state assembly on Thursday. He singled out names of two suspects of the four arrested at that time.
“I have the list of the arrested accused. First is Pawan Yadav, second one is Mohammad Arbaaz. These are people from “Sadbhavana” community. We will run Sadbhavna Express for them. Wait and watch we will run “bullet” train for them,” CM Adityanath said.
It is pertinent to mention here that at the time he made his statement in the assembly, four suspects had been arrested in the case: Pawan Yadav Sunil Kumar Bari, Viraj Sahu and Mohammed Arbaaz. Later in the day, 12 more suspects – Sunil, Jaikishan, Arjun Agrahari, Ratan Gupta, Krishnakant Gupta, Aman Gupta, Anil Kumar, Priyanshu Sharma, Ashish Singh, Vikas Bhandari, Manish Kumar Saroj, Abhishek Tiwari and Abhishek Sahu were arrested. Police is yet to trace and arrest the main accused who is seen groping the woman in the viral video.
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