"Minister Shouldn't Have Threatened...": High Court On Farmers' Killing
NDTV
Ashish Mishra is accused of running over four farmers and a journalist during a protest against farm laws at Lakhimpur Kheri on October 3.
Union Minister Ajay Mishra Teni, whose son Ashish Mishra is accused of killing protesting farmers at Uttar Pradesh's Lakhimpur Kheri last year, shouldn't have made threatening remarks to farmers days before the incident, the High Court said today, rejecting bail to four other accused in the case.
The Allahabad High Court referred to a charge sheet file by the Special Investigation Team of the Uttar Pradesh Police that said the killings would not have taken place if Ajay Mishra, a Minister of State for Home in Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government, had not allegedly threatened farmers.
Ashish Mishra is accused of running over four farmers and a journalist during a protest against farm laws at Lakhimpur Kheri on October 3. Three more were killed in the violence that erupted after the killings.
Less than an hour before the incident, Ashish Mishra was allegedly part of his father's convoy, which was headed to a wrestling event attended by UP Deputy Chief Minister Keshav Prasad Maurya. Farmers had shown black flags to this convoy as it passed them.
