Ajay Mishra no stranger to controversies
The Hindu
Lower court acquitted Ajay Kumar Mishra in 2004 but the criminal appeal in a murder case is still pending before the Allahabad HC
The mowing down of farmers in the , in which his , is not the first burning controversy in the life of Ajay Kumar Mishra, Union Minister of State for Home Affairs. Before he entered State-level electoral politics, Mr. Mishra was in the year 2000 accused of murdering a youth leader of the Samajwadi Party in Tikonia. A local sessions court acquitted Mr. Mishra and three others in March 2004 in the murder case of Prabhat Gupta alias Raju.
A criminal appeal filed by Prabhat Gupta’s brother Rajeev Gupta is pending before the Allahabad High Court, which had in March 2018 reserved the judgment in the appeal, but since it could not be delivered later that year, Gupta’s family prayed for it to be heard again. The last hearing in the case was on February 5, 2019.
“If justice was prompt, then justice would not have deviated somewhere,” Mr. Rajeev Gupta, who is still pursuing the legal case, told The Hindu.
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