Lakhimpur Kheri violence: Two arrested, SIT summons minister’s son India News – Times of India

Lakhimpur Kheri: Hours after the formation of a Special Investigation Team (SIT) and the appointment of a judicial inquiry panel, the first arrests – two people, part of central minister State’s Ajay Mishra Teni’s convoy for home that allegedly crushed and killed four farmers – was made on Sunday Lakhimpur Kheri Murder case. Minister’s son Ashish Mishra has been summoned sit.
A police said, “So far six of the unidentified accused in the (farmers’) FIR have been identified. Three of them died on the spot. Two others – Luv Kush of Banbirpur and Ashish Pandey of Taranagar. Was arrested on Thursday.” The statement said. ADG (Lucknow zone) SN Sabat told TOI, “He will be produced in the court.”
Earlier in the day, IG (Lucknow) Laxmi Singh said, “They revealed the names of three people involved in the incident. We cannot to arrest them because they are dead. We have collected vital clues from the two people we are interrogating.”
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On Thursday morning, the Supreme Court asked the UP government to file a report in the Lakhimpur Kheri case. Violence till Friday. The single-member judicial inquiry panel comprising retired high court judge Pradeep Kumar Srivastava was announced on Thursday. Will report in two months.

The SIT initially announced, meanwhile, there were six members – Kheri’s additional SP Arun Kumar Singh, who was in Banbirpur village that day, two deputy SPs and three inspector rank officers. In the evening, a new setup was announced – the SIT will have eight members headed by DIG Upendra Agarwal, with PAC commandant Sunil Kumar Singh as a senior member and ASP Singh as a member among others.
IG Singh said, ‘Ashish Mishra has been summoned for questioning. A notice was pasted outside his house asking Ashish to be present at the Kheri crime branch office at 10 am on Friday. A media report quoting a relative of the minister said that Ashish had left Lakhimpur Kheri on Wednesday. When asked, ADG (Lucknow Zone) SN Sabat said, “The investigation team is probing it.” The families of farmer Gurvinder Singh and journalist Raman Kashyap, who were killed in Sunday’s violence, said the bodies had bullet marks, The post-mortem report did not mention any bullet wound. Eyewitnesses spoke to TOI – and reported by this newspaper – had said that “more than 10 shots” had been fired, that the convoy had people who opened fire and that two cars were burnt down. The sound lasted for hours.