New Delhi
As the top court described as unfortunate the incidents on October 3 in which eight people including four farmers were killed, the BJP government in Uttar Pradesh, which is facing heat over the violence ahead of the Assembly elections, announced it has constituted a one-member judicial commission.
Retired Allahabad High Court judge Pradeep Kumar Srivastava has been asked to complete the probe into the violence. The announcement of the commission came hours before the apex court was to take up the Lakhimpur Kheri matter. A statement by the police said Luvkush of Banbirpur village and Ashish Pandey of Nighasan tehsil were arrested after questioning. An FIR under section 302 IPC (murder) was earlier registered against Ashish Mishra and others at the Tikonia police station.
A notice was also pasted at Minister Ajay Mishra’s house in Lakhimpur city under Section 160 of the CrPC on Thursday asking his son to present himself at 10 am on Friday at the Crime Branch office in police lines in Lakhimpur city to present any oral, written or digital evidence.
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