Lakhimpur Kheri case: Editors Guild demands SIT probe on journalist's death

There are competing versions about local TV journalist Raman Kashyap's death, including a version that claims he died of bullet wounds, says Editors Guild

The Editors Guild of India on Tuesday expressed shock at the death of Raman Kashyap, a TV journalist who was reporting on Lakhimpur Kheri’s farmers' protest on October 3, and demanded an SIT probe.

Kashyap was killed along with eight others, in the violence that erupted after some vehicles were driven through the protesting farmers, allegedly under the instructions of Ashish Mishra, son of union minister of state, Ajay Mishra Teni.

"There are competing versions about Kashyap’s death including a version that claims he died of bullet wounds. What is clear is that Kashyap was reporting on the events of