"He Was Returning Home Peacefully": Son Of Farmer Who Died In UP Protest
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Lakhimpur Kheri: "Nothing of this sort has happened before here. We want justice. We ask for nothing else," the farmer's son said
The family of a 65-year-old farmer who was seen in a video being knocked down by an SUV during a protest in Uttar Pradesh's Lakhimpur Kheri has told NDTV that he was returning home peacefully along with other protesters when the incident happened.
"Their protest route was diverted and they were returning home peacefully," Jagdeep Singh, the son of farmer Nachhatar Singh, who died after he was hit by an SUV, told NDTV. "But he never reached home."
Jagdeep Singh has a younger brother, who is a soldier in the border-guarding force Sashastra Seema Bal or SSB.
"We heard about the incident earlier in the day. The situation was such that no one had much information about what happened. We tried and tried to search for my father. It was late in the evening, just before 7, that we were told my father's body has been found," Jagdeep Singh, surrounded by mourning family members at their small home in the UP district, told NDTV today.
