Two more people have been arrested in connection with the killing of two BJP workers and a driver during the October 3 Lakhimpur Kheri violence.

The duo were held by the Special Investigation Team (SIT) on Saturday evening.

With this, six people have been arrested in connection with FIR No. 220 which pertains to the killing of BJP workers Shubham Bajpai and Shyam Sundar Nishad and driver Hariom by an agitated crowd after a car ploughed through a group of farmers. Four farmers and a journalist were killed.

“Those arrested on Saturday in FIR No. 220 were identified as Kawaljeet Singh of Khairatiya village under Tikunia police station area and Kamaljeet Singh of Babaura under Palia police station,” the SIT said in a statement.

FIR No. 220 invoked several sections of IPC including murder (302). The other four arrested in this case are Vichitra Singh, Gurvinder Singh, Ranjit Singh and Avtar Singh. All the accused are in jail.

On October 3, 2021, farmers returning from a protest in Lakhimpur Kheri were hit from behind and mowed down by a vehicle owned by Union minister Ajay Mishra Teni. Days earlier, Teni had warned protesting farmers he could fix them in two minutes. Ashish Mishra, son of the Union minister of state for home, is the prime accused in the murders.

In retaliatory violence, the vehicle driver and two BJP workers were allegedly beaten to death by the crowd.