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Lakhimpur Kheri Case: 8 people including four farmers died in UP’s Lakhimpur Kheri violence
New Delhi:
Union minister’s son Ashish Mishra – accused of murder in the farmer deaths at Lakhimpur Kheri – has been summoned for questioning, the UP police said. Two people who were at the location of the incident have been arrested, the police said.
This is the first time the police has asked to question Ashish Mishra — the son of junior home minister Ajay Mishra. An FIR against him was filed on Monday. The police pasted a notice outside the Union Minister’s home, summoning his son for questioning at 10 am on Friday. The inaction so far had set off opposition allegations that the police are shielding the high-profile accused.
The two men who have been arrested have been identified as Luv Kush and Ashish Pandey. The two were in the same vehicle that ran over a journalist and farmers, the police said. Two gun cartridges have been recovered from them. An eight-member UP Police team will investigate the Lakhimpur Kheri violence.
The Supreme Court, which is hearing a petition regarding the events at Lakhimpur Kheri, on Thursday questioned “how many people have been arrested” and asked the state government to submit a status report by tomorrow.
Here are LIVE Updates on UP Violence In Lakhimpur Kheri:
Lakhimpur Kheri Violence: Minister’s Son Yet To Appear Before Police
Union Minister of State for Home Kumar Ajay Mishra’s son Ashish Mishra, who was asked to appear before the police at 10 am on Friday in connection with the Lakhimpur Kheri violence, did not reach the police lines till 10.30 am. Deputy Inspector General (Headquarters) Upendra Agarwal who is heading the probe team arrived at the office on time. “Ashish Mishra has not turned up till now,” an official source said around 10.30 am. After two men were arrested on Thursday, the police pasted a notice outside his house asking him to appear before it in connection with the violence that claimed eight lives.
Senior Congress leader Kapil Sibal today asked Prime Minister Narendra Modi how he would have reacted to the violence in Uttar Pradesh’s Lakhimpur Kheri in which eight persons were killed.
Samajwadi Party president and former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister, Akhilesh Yadav said that he met the families of the deceased and they all want justice, Samajwadi party demands financial aid of Rs 2 crore and government jobs for the families.
“I met all the families of the deceased and all of them want justice. I expect that the truth will come out. There are several cases where justice had not been served. National Human Rights Commission has given the report where Uttar Pradesh has the most numbers of custodial deaths,” he said.
The Supreme Court, which is hearing a petition regarding the events at Lakhimpur Kheri, on Thursday questioned “how many people have been arrested” and asked the state government to submit a status report by Friday.
Ashish Mishra has been summoned for questioningat 10 am today, the UP police said. Two people who were at the location of the incident have been arrested, the police said.
AAP MP and the party’s Uttar Pradesh in-charge Sanjay Singh on Thursday termed the tough stand taken by the Supreme Court on the Lakhimpur Kheri violence as “shameful” for the BJP government in the state.
“Farmers have been mowed to death by the vehicle of Union Minister of State for Home Ajay Mishra”s son. The families of the victims have raised questions as to why the Union minister has not been asked to resign and why his son has not been arrested. Now the Supreme Court has also asked why arrests have not been made in the Lakhimpur Kheri case so far. This is a shameful situation for the Yogi Adityanath government,” he told reporters.
When the entire country was mourning the death of farmers in the Lakhimpur Kheri incident, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath were celebrating the “Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav” in Lucknow and they did not even go to meet the families of the deceased farmers, Mr Singh said.
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