The Supreme Court Thursday said it would like to hear the two lawyers who wrote a letter seeking a high-level judicial inquiry, also involving the CBI, into the Lakhimpur Kheri incident in which eight people were killed in violence during a farmers' protest.

A bench headed by Chief Justice N V Ramana said that the letter was to be registered as a PIL and due to some “miscommunication” it was listed as the suo motu (on its own) case. "Does not matter, we will hear it nonetheless,” said the bench, also comprising justices Surya Kant and Hima Kohli. The bench asked the court officials to intimate the two lawyers - Shiv Kumar Tripathi and C S Panda – to appear and passed over the case.