Union Minister Ajay Mishra’s son Ashish surrenders in Lakhimpur court

central minister Ajay Mishra’s son Ashish Mishra He surrendered before a local court here on Sunday, days after the SC canceled his bail in the Lakhimpur Kheri violence case.

Ashish’s lawyer Awadhesh Singh said, “Ashish has surrendered in the court. We were given a week’s time, but Monday was the last day, so he surrendered a day earlier.” PTI,

Jail Superintendent PP Singh said that Ashish will be kept in a separate barrack in the jail for security reasons.

On April 18, the Supreme Court had canceled the bail of Ashish Mishra and asked him to surrender within a week.

Eight people were killed in Lakhimpur Kheri on October 3 last year when farmers protesting the visit of Uttar Pradesh Deputy Chief Minister Keshav Prasad Maurya’s visit.

The dead include four farmers and a journalist, who were allegedly crushed to death by cars carrying BJP workers.

According to the FIR registered in the case, Ashish was sitting in a car. Later the police arrested Ashish.

The Lucknow Bench of the Allahabad HC had granted him regular bail and held that the present case was one of “an accident involving a vehicle”.

While canceling their bail, the Supreme Court said the victims were denied a “fair and effective trial” in the Allahabad High Court, which took a “short-sighted view of the evidence”.

The apex court had also noted that a victim has rights of unbridled participation from the stage of investigation till the conclusion of proceedings in appeal or revision.

Holding that the order of the High Court could not be upheld and deserved to be set aside, the SC held that the Lakhimpur Kheri incident, if the allegations are true, would give adequate protection to life, liberty and liberty to the State authorities. Dubbed as the “awakening call” to reinforce. Property for the eyewitnesses/injured witnesses as well as the families of the deceased.