The Uttar Pradesh authorities these days hostile withinside the Supreme Court the bail plea of Union Minister Ajay Kumar Mishra’s son, who’s one of the accused withinside the Lakhimpur Kheri violence case. Additional Advocate General for Uttar Pradesh Garima Prashad instructed a bench of Justice Surya Kant and Justice JK Maheshwari that the crime is grave.
“It is a grave and heinous crime and (granting bail) will ship a incorrect sign to society,” she stated after the courtroom docket requested her what turned into the floor for opposing the bail plea.
The pinnacle courtroom docket stated approximately the grave and heinous crime there are variations and it can’t touch upon any of the variations.
“We are taking prima facie view that he’s worried and he’s an accused and now no longer innocent. Is it the country’s case that he has tried to smash evidence?” the bench requested.
To this, the extra suggest preferred replied, “That has now no longer took place until now.” Senior suggest Dushyant Dave, acting for the ones opposing the bail plea, stated provide of bail will ship a horrible message to society. “It’s a conspiracy and a well-deliberate murder. I will display from the fee sheet… He is the son of a effective guy being represented via way of means of a effective lawyer,” he stated.
Senior suggest Mukul Rohatgi, acting for Mishra, strongly hostile Dave’s submission and stated, “What is this? Who is effective? We are acting each day. Can this be a circumstance to now no longer provide bail?” Rohatgi submitted that his patron has been in custody for greater than a 12 months and the manner the trial is going, it’ll take seven to 8 years to finish it. He said that Jagjeet Singh, who’s the complainant withinside the case, isn’t an eyewitness and his criticism is simply primarily based totally on hearsay.
“Jagjit Singh is the complainant and he isn’t an eyewitness. I am amazed that once there may be a massive range of humans pronouncing we ran over humans mercilessly, an FIR is registered at the model of someone who isn’t an eyewitness?” he stated.
“My patron were given bail withinside the first instance. This isn’t a cock and bull tale and there may be fact in my tale,” Rohatgi stated, including that his patron isn’t a crook and there aren’t anyt any beyond records. Hearing withinside the count is underway.
On October 3, 2021, 8 humans have been killed in Lakhimpur Kheri district’s Tikunia in a violence that erupted whilst farmers have been protesting then Uttar Pradesh Deputy Chief Minister Keshav Prasad Maurya’s go to to the area.
According to Uttar Pradesh Police FIR, 4 farmers have been mowed down via way of means of an SUV, wherein Ashish Mishra turned into seated. Following the incident, a driving force and BJP people have been allegedly lynched via way of means of indignant farmers. A journalist additionally died withinside the violence.
On December 6 final 12 months, a tribulation courtroom docket had framed expenses in opposition to Ashish Mishra and 12 others for the alleged offences of murder, crook conspiracy and others withinside the case of demise of the protesting farmers in Lakhimpur Kheri, paving the manner for the begin of the trial.
A overall of thirteen accused, inclusive of Ashish Mishra, had been charged below IPC sections 147 and 148 associated with rioting, 149 (illegal assembly), 302 (murder), 307 (try and murder), 326 (voluntarily inflicting grievous harm via way of means of risky guns or means), 427 (mischief) and 120B (punishment for crook conspiracy), and segment 177 of the Motor Vehicle Act.
The different 12 accused are Ankit Das, Nandan Singh Bisht, Latif Kale, Satyam alias Satya Prakash Tripathi, Shekhar Bharti, Sumit Jaiswal, Ashish Pandey, Lavkush Rana, Shishu Pal, Ullas Kumar alias Mohit Trivedi, Rinku Rana and Dharmendra Banjara. All of them are in jail.
While listening to the problem on December 12 final 12 months, the pinnacle courtroom docket had requested the country authorities, which hostile the bail plea of Ashish Mishra terming the offence “very grave”, to document a sworn statement regarding the fame of the case lodged over the killing of 3 occupants of the SUV.
