The Uttar Pradesh government on Friday transferred the police officer heading the special investigation team probing the Lakhimpur Kheri massacre of farmers but said he would continue to supervise the inquiry.
The Uttar Pradesh police headquarters made it clear that the transfer of deputy inspector-general Upendra Kumar Agarwal to Gonda district, 180km from Lakhimpur Kheri, was a routine exercise.
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A Thar jeep belonging to Union minister Ajay Mishra Teni and with his son Ashis in it had run over and killed four farmers and a journalist in Lakhimpur Kheri on October 3.
Ashis was arrested after a week in the aftermath of the Supreme Court expressing dissatisfaction with the probe.
Agarwal is a 2005-batch IPS officer of the Uttar Pradesh cadre.
