LUCKNOW: Uttar Pradesh government on Thursday constituted a single member judicial commission comprising retired Allahabad high court judge Pradeep Kumar Srivastava to probe the Lakhimpur Kheri violence in which eight people were killed.
The commission will complete its inquiry in two months starting from Thursday. The commission will be headquartered in Lakhimpur Kheri.
The government had announced a probe into the incident by a retired high court judge on Monday soon after the demand by the families of the deceased farmers.
“The commission shall complete the enquiry within a period of two months from the date of the issue of this notification. Any change in its tenure shall be at the behest of the government,” said the notification issued by the state government.
The commission will probe the entire sequence of events which unfolded on October 3 following which eight people, including four farmers, were killed.
On the other hand, the six-member SIT formed to investigate Lakhimpur Kheri violence began its probe and summoned two persons on Thursday.
The SIT has summoned Union minister Ajay Mishra Teni’s son Ashish Mishra for questioning on Friday. A notice was pasted in this regard outside his house by the SIT.
The SIT comprises two deputy superintendents of police and three inspectors. A forensic team is assisting the SIT in the probe.
9-member panel to monitor Kheri violence
UP Director General of Police on Thursday constituted a nine-member committee headed by a DIG-rank officer to monitor the ongoing probe in the Lakhimpur Kheri incident to ensure transparency. DGP Mukul Goel told TOI, “A nine-member committee headed by a DIG-rank officer has been formed to ensure an impartial and transparent probe into the Lakhimpur Kheri incident.”
The committee headed by DIG (headquarters) Upendra Agrawal also includes Commandant, 10th Battalion, PAC, Sunil Kumar Singh, Additional SP (Kheri) Arun Kumar Singh, two police circle officers, three inspectors and one sub-inspector as members. The committee will have the mandate to monitor the probe in both the FIRs registered in the case on October 4, Goel added.
“I sincerely hope that the committee will ensure probity and help expedite the probe as soon as possible,” the DGP said. Inspector General of police, Lucknow Range, Laxmi Singh told TOI, “The ambit of this case has turned vast hence the monitoring committee has been constituted.”
Initially, an ASP-rank officer posted in the district was supervising the probe but now this monitoring committee will oversee the probe, the IG said.
