A bench led by Chief Justice of India NV Ramana will hear the case on Thursday. The other judges on the bench will be Justices Surya Kant and Hima Kohli. The court’s business list issued late on Wednesday night showed that SC had by its own motion filed a case on, “violence in Lakhimpur Kheri (Uttar Pradesh) leading to loss of life”. The case has been listed as item 17.
Multiples pleas have been made to the Supreme Court and filed in the Allahabad high court by advocates, NGOs and activists, seeking intervention to order a court-monitored CBI probe or high-level judicial inquiry, but the SC action has been initiated on its own. Right to life and liberty is a Fundamental Right enshrined in the Indian Constitution. The court seems to have taken the incident as a serious violation of the right. Eight people were killed in the incident, including four farmers, and four others. One of them was a journalist covering the incident.
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