The Supreme Court has questioned the Uttar Pradesh government over the listing of fewer witnesses as compared to the number of people present at the site of the Lakhimpur Kheri incident.

"There were hundreds of farmers in the rally there are only 23 eyewitnesses?" asked the apex court. "There was a crowd of 4,000-5,000 people who are all local people and even post-incident most of them have been agitating. That's what has been reported and identification of these people should not be a problem then," a bench of Chief Justice of India NV Ramana and Justices Surya Kant and Hima Kohli observed.