Posing as journalists, the three assailants, currently lodged in jail, shot Atiq and Ashraf dead when police were escorting them to a hospital in Prayagraj.
Families who lost their loved ones in Lakhimpur Kheri last year - crushed by a car driven allegedly by the son of a Union Minister and in the violence that followed - say they no longer feel optimistic about getting justice.
Eight people died in the 3 October Lakhimpur Kheri violence, of which four were protesting farmers, allegedly run over by vehicles owned by India s Minister of. 03.01.2022, Sputnik International
On Tuesday, a UP Police SIT had said that the killing of farmers in Lakhimpur Kheri in October was planned. The Union minister’s son is an accused in the case.