Among the eight people who died in the Lakhimpur Kheri carnage on 3 October was the 33-year-old journalist Raman Kashyap. Anil Kumar Maurya, another journalist who was present at the scene, told The Caravan that he and Raman had been exchanging visiting cards when a black SUV drove through the crowd, hitting Raman, among others. The vehicle was part of a cavalcade associated with the union minister Ajay Kumar Mishra Teni that allegedly mowed down farmers protesting the controversial agricultural laws. After initially fleeing the scene, Maurya said, he spent the rest of the day looking for Raman, eventually returning home at 3 am. Around that time, Raman’s father, Ram Dulare, received a call from the local mortuary, asking him to come identify his son’s body.
Raman was a tehsil correspondent with the regional television channel Sadhna Plus News. Surjeet Channi, a journalist with the news channel News One India who has known Raman’s family for years—and was
