Lakhimpur Kheri Case: High Court To Hear Bail Plea Of Minister’s Son Today

Lucknow:

The Allahabad Excessive Court docket will on Monday resume listening to the bail plea of Union minister Ajay Mishra’s son Ashish Mishra, allegedly concerned within the Lakhimpur Kheri violence that left eight individuals useless.

Within the listening to earlier than the Lucknow bench of the excessive court docket on Friday, the victims’ aspect had cited the rejection of the bail pleas of co-accused Ankit Das and others within the case.

The counsel had additionally argued that Ashish Mishra’s bail plea was not maintainable, citing new offences added in opposition to him throughout the police investigation.

Justice Krishan Pal had then mounted July 11 as the following date for the listening to.

4 farmers, a part of a protest in opposition to the now-repealed farm legal guidelines, have been killed on October 3 final yr when a automobile mowed them down close to Tikonia village in Uttar Pradesh’s Lakhimpur Kheri. It was alleged that Ashish Mishra was sitting in one of many automobiles within the convoy.

Within the subsequent violence, two BJP staff and a driver have been killed. A journalist was the eighth sufferer.

That day the farmers have been protesting in opposition to the go to of Uttar Pradesh Deputy Chief Minister Keshav Prasad Maurya to Ajay Mishra’s native Banbir village.

In April, the Supreme Court docket cancelled the bail granted to the minister’s son by the excessive court docket, however directed that the HC might re-examine the matter.

Ashish Mishra had then filed a recent bail plea.

The violence throughout the farmers’ year-long protest over the agriculture legal guidelines had triggered outrage and the Opposition mounted a marketing campaign in search of the eliminated of Ajay Mishra from the Union cupboard.

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