Lakhimpur Kheri: Union Minister Ajay Kumar Mishra’s son Ashish Mishra, who was arrested in connection with the violence in Uttar Pradesh’s Lakhimpur Kheri, has been remanded in judicial custody for 14 days.
Senior prosecution officer S.P. Yadav said a medical team examined Ashish Mishra in the crime branch office here after which he was taken for production before a judicial magistrate, who sent him to 14-day judicial custody, PTI reported.
He said an application for Ashish Mishra’s police remand was submitted to the judicial magistrate, who fixed it for hearing at 11 a.m. on Monday.
A senior official said the Union Minister’s son has been placed under Covid quarantine in the district jail here.
“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, according to sources, has been kept in Barrack No. 21, PTI reported.
Ashish Mishra, who 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, 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.
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The Supreme Court had earlier on Friday expressed its dissatisfaction over the action taken against the accused in the Lakhimpur incident that had drawn massive outrage.
The Samyukta Kisan Morcha, which is spearheading the agitation against the Central government’s three farm laws, had alleged that the violence was held under a pre-planned conspiracy and demanded the arrest of the minister and his son.