Lakhimpur Kheri Violence: Court docket reserves order on petition filed in opposition to Ashish Mishra’s bail

New Delhi: The Supreme Court docket, whereas listening to a petition filed in opposition to the bail of Ashish Mishra, the son of Union Minister Ajay Mishra and the primary accused within the Lakhimpur Kheri violence case, referred to the Allahabad Excessive Court docket order and questioned how the decide would look into the postmortem report intimately. can? Chief Justice N. A bench of V. Ramana, Justice Surya Kant and Justice Hima Kohli reserved its order on the petition in search of cancellation of bail.

“How can a decide go into the postmortem report intimately? We’re listening to the matter associated to bail, we don’t wish to dangle it. It’s pointless to speak on its deserves and demerits and so on. for bail.” Senior advocates Dushyant Dave and Prashant Bhushan, showing for the farmers, have alleged that whereas in search of cancellation of bail, excessive Court docket Ignored the investigation report and regarded into the FIR solely to grant aid to the accused. The state authorities, nevertheless, termed the crime as critical and stated that each one witnesses have been supplied safety.

On March 16, the apex court docket had directed the Uttar Pradesh authorities to make clear its stand on a petition difficult the Allahabad Excessive Court docket’s choice to grant bail. It had additionally directed the state authorities on March 10 to supply safety to the witnesses. Members of the households of farmers killed in violence in Uttar Pradesh’s Lakhimpur Kheri have challenged the Excessive Court docket order granting bail to Ashish Mishra within the Supreme Court docket. On February 10, a single bench of the Excessive Court docket had granted bail to Mishra within the case. Earlier than that he had been in custody for 4 months. Eight individuals, together with 4 farmers, have been killed on this violence.

It’s noteworthy {that a} group of farmers was protesting in opposition to the go to of Bharatiya Janata Social gathering (BJP) chief Keshav Prasad Maurya on October 3 final 12 months when an SUV (automotive) allegedly crushed 4 farmers in Lakhimpur Kheri. Was. Offended protesters allegedly thrashed two BJP staff and a driver, whereas a neighborhood journalist was additionally killed within the violence. Farmer leaders have claimed that Ashish Mishra was within the car that crushed the protesters. Nonetheless, Mishra has denied the allegations.