By Sonia Sarkar
Jagdeep Singh, a 31-year-old farmer from India’s most populous state of Uttar Pradesh applied to local authorities for a revolver licence four months ago.His village of Lakhimpur Kheri, home to 4 million people, is filled with lush green sugar cane and paddy fields.It was in one such sugar cane field Singh’s father died last year. The son of a federal minister was allegedly part of a convoy comprising a jeep and two SUVs that rammed into the elder Singh and three other farmers.They were…
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