SIT arrives in UP’s Lakhimpur Kheri for probe into incident
A total of eight people including three farmers had died in the violence in the Lakhimpur Kheri district on October 3.
New Delhi: Special Investigation Team (SIT) probing the Lakhimpur Kheri incident, on Thursday reached the site along with security forces.
A total of eight people including three farmers had died in the violence in the Lakhimpur Kheri district on October 3.
As many as eight people including four farmers had died in the violence that took place on October 3. Uttar Pradesh police have so far arrested three people including the son of Union Minister of State Ajay Mishra Teni’s son Ashish Mishra.
Lakhimpur Kheri: Special Investigation Team (SIT) probing the Lakhimpur Kheri incident reaches the site, along with security forces pic.twitter.com/NBMytArD5V
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A Congress delegation on Wednesday submitted a memorandum to President Ram Nath Kovind demanding an independent judicial investigation by a Commission comprising of two sitting judges of the Supreme Court of India or the High Court.
A delegation of Indian National Congress leaders comprising Mallikarjun Kharge, AK Antony, Ghulam Nabi Azad, Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra called on President Kovind at Rashtrapati Bhavan: Rashtrapati Bhavan pic.twitter.com/jt1MO9vqbG
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Samyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM), a body of several farmer unions, had issued a statement regarding the incident and alleged that one of the four farmers was shot dead by Ashish Mishra, while the others had been allegedly run over by the vehicles of his convoy.
