Ballistic experts found "major inconsistencies" in a local BKU leader's claim that he was fired at while he was driving home in his car, police said, and suggested that the firing might have been faked to obtain an arms licence.
The experts from Forensic Science Laboratory (FSL), Lucknow, in their report, have said that the car owned by Dilbag Singh, the Kheri district president of Bhartiya Kisan Union-Tikait and also a witness in the Lakhimpuri Kheri violence case last year, was stationary when it was hit by bullets.
Kheri Superintendent of Police Sanjiv Suman on Thursday said the statements of two people – Jitendra and Vipin – whom Mr. Singh had claimed to have dropped at their village before he was attacked, had been recorded and they revealed that Mr. Singh himself had told them to "attack" his vehicle.
