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Lakhimpur Kheri violence
Part of 2020–2021 Indian farmers' protest
Date3 October 2021 (2021-10-03)
Location
Tikunia, Lakhimpur Kheri district, Uttar Pradesh, India

28°22′59″N 80°57′59″E / 28.38317°N 80.966478°E / 28.38317; 80.966478
MethodsVehicle-ramming attack
Parties
Farmers
Others
Casualties and losses
4
2
2 (car driver, journalist)
Map

Lakhimpur Kheri violence[17] was a vehicle-ramming attack and mob lynching incident during farmers’ protest against the three farm laws passed by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) led Union Government. It happened on 3 October 2021 at Tikunia in Lakhimpur Kheri district, Uttar Pradesh, India, resulting in deaths of eight people and injuries to ten others. Four protesters and a journalist were run over by the car,[18] three others were lynched by protestors in the subsequent violence.[19]

Incident

Representative picture of the Mahindra Thar SUV, the same model involved in the incident

On 3 October 2021, hundreds of farmers in Tikunia area of Lakhimpur Kheri district were returning after staging protests as part of the 2020-2021 Indian farmers' protest against the three farm laws passed by the BJP-led Union Government. The protestors were blocking state deputy chief minister Keshav Prasad Maurya's visit to Banbirpur village.[20] The protestors walking on the road were hit and ran over from behind by a speeding Mahindra Thar, a SUV car. Two other vehicles in the convoy quickly followed the first car and crushed the injured who were lying on the ground.[21]

Total eight people died in the violence.[20] Two farmers died on the spot while two more died later in the hospital.[22][20] Ten farmers were injured.[23][24] Raman Kashyap, a 28-year-old journalist working with the private TV news channel was among those killed.[18][22] His father who witnessed the incident, stated that Kashyap was hit by the car and grievously injured. Three persons in the minister's convoy were lynched by the farmers subsequently. The victims included driver of Ajay Mishra and two BJP workers.[22]

Two of these cars involved were owned by the union minister Ajay Kumar Mishra. According to the eyewitnesses the minister's son, Ashish Mishra, was in one of the cars in the convoy.[25]

Investigation

Two First information reports (FIR) on the incident were filed in the Tikunia police station.[26] Ashish Mishra, the son of Union Minister of State Ajay Mishra, was allegedly driving the car involved in the incident. Mishra had denied the charge and evaded police questioning for six days.[27][3]

The Supreme Court heard the case after two lawyers from Uttar Pradesh wrote to Chief Justice N. V. Ramana, seeking a federal investigation into the incident. The Supreme Court criticised Uttar Pradesh government and expressed dissatisfaction over the steps taken so far. The court also asked the police why the minister's son had not been arrested when he was accused of a serious crime of murder. Chief Justice Ramana speaking for the court disapproved of the Special Investigation Team (SIT) set up by the Uttar Pradesh government as "the people in the commission, they're all local officers".[22][28][1]

Ashish Mishra appeared for questioning before the SIT six days after the incident. He was arrested and taken to custody on 9 October 2021.[22] Three more people were also arrested.[19][2] On 12 October, he was taken to the violence site for reconstruction of the events.[2]

On 15 November 2021, the Supreme Court directed Uttar Pradesh government to "upgrade" the SIT with more senior police officers and include a retired judge "to ensure proper investigation".[29]

Aftermath

An alleged video of the incident shared by BJP parliamentarian Varun Gandhi showed a vehicle ramming unarmed protesters from behind.[30]

On 9 October, the farmer unions termed the violence an "act of terror" that was part of a larger conspiracy to break the ten-month-old farmers' protest. The union stated, this "massacre" during the farmer's movement was analogous to the Jallianwala Bagh massacre during the Indian independence movement. The unions and Samyukt Kisan Morcha (SKM) planned several protests calling for the immediate dismissal and arrest of Union minister, Ajay Mishra Teni, and his son Ashish.[31][32] Rashtriya Lok Dal president Jayant Chaudhary, called the incident "not less than a terror attack".[33][34] Opposition parties held protest meetings against the Lakhimpur Kheri violence. Canadian MP Sukh Dhaliwal, shaken by the video of the incident, called it a terror attack no different than London, Ontario truck attack.[35][36]

Editors Guild of India (EGI) demanded a probe by a court-led special investigative team on the death of the journalist and asked the media to report facts.[37]

Reference

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