The Uttar Pradesh police on Sunday filed a First Information Report against Ashish Mishra , the son of Union minister Ajay Mishra, and seve...
The Uttar Pradesh police on Sunday filed a First Information Report against Ashish Mishra, the son of Union minister Ajay Mishra, and several other people in connection with the violence in Lakhimpur Kheri district, reported NDTV.
Eight people, including four farmers, were killed in the district as violence broke out during a farmers’ protest against the Centre’s contentious agriculture laws on Sunday.
The Bhartiya Kisan Union alleged that a vehicle belonging to Ashish Mishra had run over a group of protestors. However, Mishra claimed that farmers threw stones at the vehicle, which led to the driver losing control and ramming into the crowd. He said the driver died in the accident.
Ajay Mishra told The Indian Express that his son, a businessman, was not at the spot when the incident took place.
The Samyukta Kisan Morcha, the umbrella body of farmers’ unions agitating against the agricultural laws, identified the farmers killed as Lovepreet Singh (20), Daljeet Singh (35), Nachattar Singh (60) and Gurvinder Singh (19). It said that 12 to 15 others, including farmers’ leader Tejendra Singh Virk, were also injured in the incident.
Meanwhile, internet services have been suspended in the district, reported India Today.
The Samyukta Kisan Morcha has called for protests outside district magistrate offices between 10 am and 1 pm across the country...
