Lakhimpur Kheri Violence: Supreme Courtroom Order On Minister's Son's Bail Request As we speak

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Ashish Mishra is son of Union Minister Ajay Kumar Mishra.

New Delhi:

The Supreme Courtroom is scheduled to pronounce on Wednesday its order on the bail plea of Union Minister Ajay Kumar Mishra’s son Ashish Mishra, an accused within the 2021 Lakhimpur Kheri violence case.

As per the trigger record of January 25 uploaded on the highest court docket web site, a bench of Justices Surya Kant and J Okay Maheshwari will pronounce the order.

The bench had on January 19 reserved its order on Mishra’s software.

On October 3, 2021, eight individuals had been killed in Lakhimpur Kheri district’s Tikunia the place violence had erupted when farmers had been protesting the then Uttar Pradesh Deputy Chief Minister Keshav Prasad Maurya’s go to to the realm.

In accordance with the Uttar Pradesh Police FIR, 4 farmers had been mowed down by an SUV through which Ashish Mishra was seated.

Following the incident, the driving force of the SUV and two BJP staff had been allegedly lynched by offended farmers. A journalist additionally died within the violence.

The Lucknow bench of the Allahabad Excessive Courtroom had on July 26 final yr rejected the bail plea of Ashish Mishra.

He has challenged the excessive court docket’s order within the high court docket.

Throughout the listening to on January 19, the highest court docket had noticed that an accused shouldn’t be incarcerated for an indefinite interval until confirmed responsible of an offence.

Whereas reserving its order on the plea, the bench had mentioned it’s a case of balancing the rights of the events.

Opposing the bail plea, Further Advocate Normal for Uttar Pradesh Garima Prashad had mentioned it was a grave and heinous crime and granting bail will ship a fallacious sign to society.

Senior advocate Dushyant Dave, showing for these opposing the bail plea, had mentioned enlarging Mishra on bail will ship a horrible message to society.

Senior advocate Mukul Rohatgi, showing for Ashish Mishra, had strongly opposed Dave’s submission and mentioned his consumer has been in custody for greater than a yr and the way in which the trial is continuing it would take seven to eight years to finish it. On December 6 final yr, the trial court docket had framed fees in opposition to Ashish Mishra and 12 others for the alleged offences of homicide, felony conspiracy and different penal legal guidelines within the case of demise of the 4 protesting farmers in Lakhimpur Kheri, paving the way in which for the beginning of the trial.

A complete of 13 accused, together with Ashish Mishra, have been charged below Indian Penal Code (IPC) sections 147 and 148 associated to rioting, 149 (illegal meeting), 302 (homicide), 307 (try to homicide), 326 (voluntarily inflicting grievous harm by harmful weapons or means), 427 (mischief) and 120B (punishment for felony conspiracy), and part 177 of the Motor Automobile Act.

The opposite 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.