Plea in SC seeks cancellation of bail to Ashish Mishra
Highlights
- Plea in SC seeks cancellation of bail to accused Ashish Mishra
- Mishra was released from jail here on Tuesday evening
- He had been lodged in jail since Oct 10 last year
Lakhimpur violence: A plea has been filed in the Supreme Court seeking cancellation of bail of accused Ashish Mishra, the son of Union minister Ajay Mishra, who was arrested in connection with the Lakhimpur Kheri violence that killed eight people including four farmers. An application has been filed by advocates Shiv Kumar Tripathi and CS Panda in the suo motu case registered on a letter petition sought setting aside of the order dated February 10 of the Lucknow bench of the Allahabad High Court.
They also sought direction to the Special Investigation Team (SIT) headed by Justice (retd) Rakesh Jain and the prosecution and Uttar Pradesh police as to why things are being delayed and to furnish a copy of the report comprising the charge sheet.
After over four months, Union minister Ajay Mishra's son Ashish Mishra was released from jail here on Tuesday evening after fulfilling bail conditions pronounced by the Allahabad High Court. Ashish Mishra had been lodged in jail since October 10 last year in the case related to the killing of four farmers in the violence that had erupted in the course of farmers' agitation in Tikonia in the district.
The Lucknow bench of the Allahabad High Court had last week granted bail to Ashish Mishra in the case. The discharge process started after an order from the district court here reached the Lakhimpur Kheri jail.
Ashish Mishra had moved the Lucknow bench of the high court on Friday seeking insertion of sections 302 (murder) and 120 B (criminal conspiracy) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) that were "inadvertently" not mentioned in the high court order as the jail authorities would not release him due to the omission.
The Special Investigation Team (SIT) had named Ashish Mishra as the main accused in the knocking down of the farmers incident in its charge sheet submitted to the court. Farmers were staging a protest in Tikonia village on October 3 last year against the visit of deputy chief minister Keshav Prasad Maurya to Ajay Mishra's native Banbir village when four of the agitating farmers were crushed under the wheels of a convoy of cars. In the subsequent violence, four others comprising two BJP workers, a driver, and a journalist were killed. Voting will take place in eight assembly segments in Lakhimpur Kheri in the fourth phase on February 23.
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