Lakhimpur Kheri deaths case: Supreme Court asks UP govt to file a status report
Zee News
The BJP-led Uttar Pradesh government told the Supreme Court that an SIT has been constituted and a single-member enquiry commission has been constituted, to also file a status report.
New Delhi: In the Lakhimpur Kheri deaths case, the Supreme Court on Thursday (October 7) asked the Uttar Pradesh government to file a status report on who are the accused, against whom FIR is registered and those arrested. The top court began hearing in the case, wherein eight people were killed in the Lakhimpur Kheri district on October 3.
The state government tells Supreme Court that an SIT has been constituted and a single-member enquiry commission has been constituted, to also file a status report.
The apex court also said that it would like to hear the two lawyers who wrote a letter seeking a high-level judicial inquiry, also involving the CBI, into the Lakhimpur Kheri incident in which eight people were killed in violence during a farmers' protest.
