Lucknow, May 10 -- A day after the Supreme Court expressed disappointment over the non-production of witnesses in the ongoing trial against Ashish Mishra, son of former Union minister Ajay Mishra, and others in the 2021 Lakhimpur violence case, district government counsel (DGC) Arvind Tripathi, who is representing the state government in a Lakhimpur Kheri court, said the then district magistrate is scheduled to appear before the trial court via video conferencing on May 13.

Two First Information Reports (FIRs), 219 and 220, were lodged on October 4, 2021, in connection with the violence: one by farmers implicating Ashish Mishra and the other by BJP ward member Sumit Jaiswal against unidentified miscreants.

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