New Delhi [India], October 6 (ANI): The Supreme Court on Wednesday took suo motu cognisance of the violence that took place in the Lakhimpur Kheri district of Uttar Pradesh.

A Bench of Chief Justice Nuthalapati Venkata Ramana and Justices Surya Kant and Hima Kohli will hear the matter on October 7.

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A total of eight people including four farmers died in the violence that took place in Lakhimpur Kheri on October 3. (ANI)

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