On Thursday, the Supreme Court ordered the Uttar Pradesh government to provide a status report on the accused, those charged, and those detained in the Lakhimpur Kheri killings case. On October 3, the top court began hearing the case where eight persons were slain in the Lakhimpur Kheri area. The state administration informs the Supreme Court that an SIT and a single-member inquiry commission have been established and would file a status report.
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The Supreme Court also stated that it would hear the two attorneys who filed a petition requesting a high-level judicial probe into the Lakhimpur Kheri tragedy. Eight persons were murdered in violence during a farmers’ protest as the CBI. The letter was to be registered as a PIL, and there was some “miscommunication,” according to a bench led by Chief Justice N V Ramana.
“It doesn’t matter; we’ll hear it anyhow,” the bench, which also included justices Surya Kant and Hima Kohli, added. The judge ordered the court officials to notify the two attorneys, Shiv Kumar Tripathi and CS Panda, to appear in court and dismiss the matter. “Two lawyers are addressed in this letter. We instructed the Registry to register this as a PIL, however it was classified as a suo motu owing to a misunderstanding.
Please invite both of the attorneys who sent the letter to attend “The Chief Justice of the International Court of Justice (CJI) said. The Lakhimpur Kheri episode, in particular, has sparked a political firestorm, with opposition parties accusing the BJP-led Uttar Pradesh government of sheltering the perpetrators.
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Meanwhile, IG Lucknow Range Laxmi Singh informed ANI that a district-level committee would examine the case and file a charge sheet in court. A judicial investigation panel will look into the occurrence as a whole. Meanwhile, the Uttar Pradesh government has formed a one-member committee headed by former High Court judge Pradeep Kumar Srivastava to investigate the violence in Lakhimpur Kheri, which claimed eight lives during a farmers’ protest march.
