'Is this same way we treat other accused', SC pulls up UP govt over Lakhimpur Kheri probe
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A bench headed by Chief Justice NV Ramana sharply questioned the UP government why Union Minister of State for Home Ajay Mishra's son Ashish Mishra, an accused in the case, has not been arrested yet.
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday said it was "not satisfied" with the steps taken by the Uttar Pradesh government in the "brutal" killing of eight people in the Lakhimpur Kheri violence, and pulled up the state police asking whether sending summons and telling "please come" was the way the accused are treated in other murder cases.
"The proof of the pudding is in the eating," a bench headed by Chief Justice N V Ramana told the UP government, and sharply questioned why Union Minister of State for Home Ajay Mishra's son Ashish Mishra, an accused in the case, has not been arrested yet.
As the court mulled transferring the probe into the violence on October 3 in which four farmers were among the killed to another agency, it also said any investigations by the CBI "may not be the solution" because of the persons who have been named in the FIR lodged by the UP police, in a veiled reference to the fact that Ashish Mishra is the son of a union minister.
