New Delhi: Former Congress chief Rahul Gandhi has given an adjournment notice in the Lok Sabha for discussing the SIT report in a case of violence in Lakhimpur Kheri district of Uttar Pradesh, in which eight people were killed.
The MP moved the adjournment notice in Lok Sabha demanding the removal of Minister of State for Home Ajay Misra, whose son is an accused in the case.
In his notice, Rahul Gandhi has sought for adjourning the business of the House and demanded that the Special Investigation Team’s (SIT) report on the Lakhimpur Kheri incident be taken up for discussion.
The SIT on Monday submitted that the killing of four farmers, who were mowed down by an SUV, and a journalist on 3 October was a ‘planned conspiracy’.
Following which, a local court Tuesday accepted several new charges raised by the SIT against Ashish Mishra and the 12 others arrested in the case.