Lakhimpur Kheri (Dec 14) The Special Investigation Team, (SIT), probing the October 3, Lakhimpur Kheri violence has applied to the Chief Judicial Magistrate to add new sections to the case against the accused.This would make the offence of attempted murder punishable.Vidhyaram, SIT’s investigating officer filed an application to the CJM court last week for the addition of new sections to the warrant.This replaces sections 338, 279 and 304A in the IPC.
The investigating officer stated in his application that the incident had been well planned and was a deliberate act and not a result of negligence.
After replacing section 279 (Rash riding or driving on public roads), sections 338 (attempts to kill), 326(Voluntarily causing grievous harm by dangerous weapons or methods), and 34 (Acts by multiple persons in support of common intent) to the Indian Penal Code, the investigating officer requested Sections 307 (attempts to murder), 326 (“Voluntarily causing grievous injury by dangerous weapons or means”) to the IPC.
Eight people were killed, four of them protesting farmers.
The violence also claimed the life of a local journalist.
The SIT has so far 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.
They are lodged in the Lakhimpur Kheri district jail.
Meanwhile, the Lucknow bench of the Allahabad High Court has given two weeks’ time to the state government to file a counter-affidavit on Ashish Mishra’s bail application.
During the hearing of the case, additional advocate general Vinod Shahi apprised the court about the ongoing investigation.
Shahi said that statements of a large number of witnesses were still to be recorded.
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