Lakhimpur Kheri violence: SIT appeals CJM to level attempt to murder charge against accused
Published By : Prameya News Bureau | December 14, 2021 IST
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Lucknow, Dec 14: The Special Investigation Team (SIT) investigating the Lakhimpur Kheri violence has filed a petition before the Chief Judicial Magistrate (CJM) to include charges of attempt to murder against the 13 accused involved in the case. Vidhyaram Diwakar, the SIT investigating officer pointed out in the petition that it is a case of well-planned and a deliberate ‘attempt to murder’ and not of negligence or callousness. Diwakar, through the application, has appealed the CJM to include Sections 307 (attempt to murder), 326 (Voluntarily causing grievous hurt by dangerous weapons or means), 34 (Acts done by several persons in furtherance of common intention) of the Indian Penal Code after replacing sections 279 (Rash driving or riding on a public way), 338 (Whoever causes grievous hurt to any person by doing any act so rashly or negligently) and 304A (Causing death by negligence) of the IPC. Worth mentioning, eight people, including four farmers died in Lakhimpur on October 3 after being run over by an SUV belonging to Union Minister Ajay Mishra Teni's son Ashish Mishra. A local journalist was also killed during the incident. The SIT has arrested Ashish Mishra, Luvkush, Ashish Pandey, Shekhar Bharti, Ankit Das, Latif, Sishupal, Nandan Singh, Satyam Tripathi, Sumit Jaiswal, Dharmendra Banjara, Rinku Rana, and Ullas Trivedi.
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