The new Special Investigation Team (SIT), set up by the Supreme Court to test the Lakhimpur Kheri violence in which four farmers were mowed down by an SUV on October 3, has begun working.
SIT Visits Crime Location
IPS officials S.B. Shiradkar, Preetinder Singh, and Padmaja Chauhan, alongside resigned judge of Punjab and Haryana High Court Rakesh Kumar Jain, who was as of late selected by the Supreme Court to screen the Lakhimpur Kheri accident test, visited the crime location in the Tikunia town on Thursday evening.
SC Expresses Concerns Over Probe
The SIT team did a probe of the savagery spot and arranged a guide of the space. The team likewise visited Agrasen Inter school, where the farmers had at first accumulated for the dissent on October 3. The SIT team then, at that point, went to Banbirpur town, 4 kilometers from the viciousness spot.
A wrestling occasion was coordinated in Banbirpur, where Uttar Pradesh Deputy Chief Minister Keshav Prasad Maurya should be the central visitor.
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Afterward, on Thursday evening, the SIT individuals held a gathering with any remaining SIT individuals, including DIG and the previous top of the SIT, Upendra Agarwal. No authority explanation was given out.
It could be reviewed that the Supreme Court had before communicated its reservations over the way wherein the probe was being directed by the prior SIT and had fused three IPS officials in the test team.
The reconstituted SIT is presently being driven by 1993 cluster IPS official Shiradkar, as of now posted as extra chief general of police (ADG), knowledge, in Lucknow.
Preetinder Singh is a 2004 clump IPS official of the Punjab unit and is presently posted as DIG in the Saharanpur range.
Padmaja Chauhan is a 1998 bunch IPS official at present filling in as IG, enlistment board.
Brutality had broken out during a farmers’ protest in Tikunia on October 3.
Four farmers and a journalist were purportedly mowed down near the caravan of Union Minister of state for home Ajay Misra Teni’s child Ashish. Three BJP laborers were lynched after the furious farmers fought back.
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