Lakhimpur Kheri

A man allegedly shot himself in the head inside a moving car while driving on the state highway in Uttar Pradesh's Lakhimpur Kheri in a suspected suicide attempt, police said.

The court of Additional District and Sessions Judge (ADJ), Subhash Singh, in Lakhimpur Kheri has sentenced a 40-year-old man to life imprisonment for the double murder of his wife's mother and sister.

A man with 23 criminal cases lodged against him at Lucknow and Lakhimpur Kheri has been re-arrested within a span of few months.

Ashish Mishra, son of Union minister Ajay Mishra, will now be tried for the murder of four farmers and a journalist during a protest in Lakhimpur Kheri last year against the now-repealed farm laws.

Two minor girls were killed after they were buried under a heap of loose soil in Uttar Pradesh's Lakhimpur Kheri at the Sharda river bank in Dhakiya village under the Bhira Kotwali limits, police said.

The Bharatiya Janata Party and the Samajwadi Party are preparing for another face-off in the Gola Gokarannath by-election in Lakhimpur Kheri, scheduled to be held on November 3.