LUCKNOW/BULANDSHAHR, July 30 -- Nearly seven years after the December 3, 2018 communal violence in Bulandshahr, a local court on Wednesday convicted 38 people for their involvement in the incident, which led to the deaths of a police inspector Subodh Kumar Singh and a civilian, said special government counsel Yashpal Singh Raghav.

However, two key accused, including a local Bajrang Dal leader Yogesh Raj and a former Rashtriya Rifles jawan Jeetendra Malik alias Jeetu Fauji, who were initially accused as key conspirators in the case, have not been convicted under charges of murders of the inspector and the civilian. The court convicted the duo under charges of attempt to murder, rioting, other Indian Penal Code sections and 7 of the Crimin...