Union Minister Ajay Mishra’s Son, Ashish, Arrested In UP Farmers’ Killing Hospitalised

Lucknow:

Union Minister Ajay Mishra’s son, Ashish Mishra, arrested for his alleged position within the Lakhimpur Kheri violence in Uttar Pradesh, has been moved to a authorities hospital after suspected dengue signs, mentioned the police.

4 farmers and a journalist have been run over on October 3 by a convoy of three automobiles, certainly one of which belongs to Union Minister of state for dwelling, Ajay Mishra. The minister’s son was arrested on October 9, 5 days after he was named within the homicide associated to the incident on costs which often advantage speedy arrest.

The households of farmers who died alleged of their grievance to the police that the minster’s son was within the driving seat of the SUV that crushed the farmers. His arrest adopted 12 hours of police questioning which in flip got here after an intervention by the Supreme Court docket.

“It isn’t confirmed as as to if he (Mishra) is affected by dengue. His pattern was despatched for testing on Friday. The image can be clear as soon as the report comes,” Superintendent of the Lakhimpur Kheri district jail PP Singh instructed information company PTI.

13 folks, together with Ashish Mishra, have to date been arrested in reference to the incident.

Ashish Mishra has denied the cost that he was on the crime scene when the murders befell; he has claimed he was in his paternal village (round two km away) and stayed there all day.

After his arrest on October 9, Ashish Mishra was first remanded to police custody on October 11 with the remand interval beginning on October 12 and ending on October 15. After the expiry of his first remand interval, he was despatched again to the Lakhimpur Jail underneath judicial custody.