Team News Riveting
Lucknow, February 15
Ashish Mishra, son of Union Minister of State for Home Affairs Ajay Mishra Teni, was released from Lakhimpur jail on Tuesday evening after the Allahabad High Court corrected its order.
He is accused of mowing down four farmers in Lakhimpur on October 3 last year in the midst of farmers’ protests.
Ashish Mishra had moved the Lucknow bench of the High Court seeking insertion of sections 302 (murder) and 120 B (criminal conspiracy) of IPC that were ‘inadvertently’ not mentioned in the high court order as the jail authorities would not release him due to the omission.
“It is a mere typographical error, while the court already considered the bail under these sections too and, as such, the same may be allowed making the addition of these sections in the order,” said the application.
Ashish Mishra was arrested on October 9 last year by the Special Investigation Team (SIT) that was probing the incident.
Eight people were killed on October 3, 2021, after violence erupted during a farmers’ protest, claiming the lives of farmers and BJP workers ahead of a visit to Lakhimpur by UP deputy chief minister Keshav Prasad Maurya.
The dead included four farmers who were mowed down by a speeding SUV owned by Ashish Mishra. One journalist covering the incident was also killed in the incident in which three BJP workers were also killed in retaliatory violence.
Mishra dodged the journalists waiting outside the jail and was evacuated from the back gate from where he straight away drove to his residence.
