Lagatar24 Desk
Lakhimpur Kheri, Jan 21: Four chargesheets have been filed against seven accused farmers in connection with the death of a driver and two BJP volunteers in Uttar Pradesh’s Lakhimpur Kheri area.
On Friday, the SIT investigator filed a 500-page charge sheet in connection with a FIR filed by BJP worker Sumit Jaiswal before the Court of Chief Judicial Magistrate.
In the Lakhimpur Kheri violence case, the seven are accused of lynching three persons after a speeding vehicle related to Union minister Ajay Misra Teni’s son Ashish reportedly mowed down four farmers and a journalist. They are currently incarcerated.
The violence that occurred in Uttar Pradesh on October 3 of last year is the subject of the Lakhimpur Kheri case. Four farmers, two BJP workers, a driver, and a local journalist were among the eight individuals killed.
The principal accused in the case is Union minister Ajay Misra Teni’s son Ashish Misra, who has been in jail since his arrest on October 9.
In connection with the incident, two FIRs were filed.
Farmer Jagjeet Singh filed the first FIR, number 219/2021, in connection with the deaths of farmers and a journalist, in which he named Ashish Mishra alias Monu, the son of a Union minister, and 15 to 20 others.
Notably on October 3, 2021, eight people were killed in Lakhimpur Kheri as farmers protested against Uttar Pradesh Deputy Chief Minister Keshav Prasad Maurya’s visit to the area, resulting in violence.
Five farmers were killed when a car related to Ajay and Ashish Misra collided with them. An enraged mob set fire to multiple vehicles, killing three people, bringing the total death toll to eight.
