UP STF probing Lakhimpur Kheri incident seizes five phones from BJP corporator, locals

New Delhi, December 4

The UP Police Special Investigation Team (SIT) probing the Lakhimpur Kheri violence has recovered five mobile phones of the accused and sent them for a forensic examination.

The STF has found five phones that reportedly contain information on the Lahimpur Kheri incident. One of the five phones belonged to BJP corporator Sumit Jaiswal who is also a complainant in one of the two FIRs lodged in connection with the incident. 

While three mobile phones belong to the family of the accused while two belong the locals who were present at the spot. 

As per the case details, a convoy of three SUVs ran over a group of farmers protesting at Tikonia crossing, killing four of them and a journalist on October 3. 

Two BJP leaders and a driver of Thar were lynched in the subsequent violence. They also damaged and set ablaze two vehicles including Mahindra Thar owned by Union Minister of State for Home Ajay Mishra, whose son Ashish is in jail in connection with the case. 

As per the probe so far, another convoy vehicle, Fortuner, belonged to one Ankit Das, nephew of former Union Minister Akhilesh Das.

The SIT has arrested 13 people in connection with an FIR related to the killings of four farmers and a journalist.