Lakhimpur Kheri Case: Accused Ashish Mishra Sent To Three-Day Police Remand With Conditions

Union MoS Ajay Kumar Mishra’s son Ashish Mishra was arrested in connection with the violence in Uttar Pradesh’s Lakhimpur Kheri.

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New Delhi: Union Minister of State Ajay Mishra Teni’s son Ashish Mishra has been sent to three-day police remand with conditions, Prosecution Advocate SP Yadav informed.

This comes after an application for Ashish Mishra’s police remand was submitted to the judicial magistrate and the hearing took place on Monday.

Union MoS Ajay Kumar Mishra’s son Ashish Mishra was arrested in connection with the violence in Uttar Pradesh’s Lakhimpur Kheri.

“Police had demanded a 14-day remand of Ashish. They have got three-day remand from October 12 to 15,” senior prosecution officer (SPO) SP Yadav told reporters, as quoted by news agency PTI.

The remand will end on October 15 morning.

The police remand was granted by Chief Judicial Magistrate Chintaram, with the condition that Ashish Mishra will not be harassed and his lawyer will remain present during interrogation, Yadav revealed.

Ashish Mishra Under COVID Quarantine In District Jail

The Senior prosecution officer has earlier informed that a medical team examined Ashish Mishra in the crime branch office after which he was taken to be produced before a judicial magistrate, who sent him to 14-day judicial custody.

A senior official on Sunday said that the Union Minister’s son had been placed under COVID quarantine in the district jail, PTI reported.

“Initially, inmates are kept in isolation, away from the main barrack. Jail food is being given to him. The quarantine period is of 14 days and his (medical) tests will be done,” he said.

The official told PTI there is also a “threat perception” angle. He, however, refused to give further details.

The Union Minister’s son has been kept in Barrack No. 21, the news agency reported sources as saying.

Ashish Mishra was arrested at around 11 p.m. earlier on Saturday after being grilled by the SIT at the crime branch office in the Police Lines, and spent the night in the district jail.

He was produced before a court late on Saturday night after around 12 hours of questioning in connection with the Lakhimpur Kheri violence in which eight people were killed.

He had appeared before the SIT around 10.30 a.m. on Saturday after a second summons was served to him the previous day when he did not turn up for interrogation.

The Union Minister’s son was named in an FIR following allegations that he was in one of the vehicles that mowed down the farmers protesting over Uttar Pradesh Deputy Chief Minister Keshav Prasad Maurya’s visit earlier on October 3.

The Supreme Court had earlier on Friday expressed its dissatisfaction over the action taken against the accused in the Lakhimpur violence that drew massive outrage.

The Samyukta Kisan Morcha, which is spearheading the agitation against the Union government’s contentious farm laws, had alleged that the violence was held under a pre-planned conspiracy and demanded the arrest of the minister and his son.

Four of the eight people who died in the Lakhimpur Kheri violence were farmers, allegedly knocked down by a vehicle carrying BJP workers. Angry farmers then allegedly lynched some people in the vehicles.

The other dead included two BJP workers and their driver.

Farmers claim that Ashish Mishra was in one of the vehicles, an allegation denied by him and his father.

(With Agency Inputs)