UP Violence: In the FIR filed by police, Ashish Mishra has been accused of homicide and dying by negligence
Lakhimpur Kheri, UP:
Union minister Ajay Mishra’s son Ashish Mishra – charged with homicide in Lakhimpur Kheri – has not been arrested 24 hours after the First Information Report naming him was filed. A prime police officer of Uttar Pradesh defined the inaction at the moment, saying they had been “busy”.
“We were first busy with negotiations with farmers and then with postmortems and then with getting the cremations done. We follow a due process in every case and we will investigate this case thoroughly,” SN Sabat, the Additional Director General of Police for the Lucknow Zone, instructed NDTV.
Asked once more by NDTV if the perspective would have been related if the excessive profile of the accused was not concerned, Mr Sabat mentioned, “The attitude of the police is towards the victim and not the accused” and refused to take additional questions.
In the FIR filed, Ashish Mishra has been accused of homicide and dying by negligence.
Farmers who had been protesting in opposition to the go to of his father of the state’s Deputy Chief Minister Keshav Maurya on Sunday, mentioned the minister’s son was on the wheels of an SUV that mowed down a gaggle, killing 4 folks and injuring a number of others. The violence it triggered led to 4 different deaths.
A video of the horrifying second circulating on social media — NDTV has not been in a position to confirm its authenticity — exhibits an SUV driving into a gaggle of protesters from behind, crushing a lot of them.
Ajay Mishra, the junior minister for dwelling, had acknowledged the accident however mentioned the car overturned, crushing the protesters who had been throwing stones on the cavalcade.
The farmers have additionally alleged that one of many 4 folks have died of bullet wounds, demanding {that a} second postmortem be carried out at a Delhi hospital. The physique has not been cremated, regardless that the funeral for the opposite three was carried out this afternoon.
Ajay Mishra and his son have each denied that they had been current on the spot.
In an interview to NDTV, Ashish Mishra mentioned. “I was not in the car. I was at my paternal home in Banwirpur village where a wrestling match was being organised. I was there from the morning till the end of the event”.
Opposition leaders have repeatedly questioned the police inaction in opposition to him.
“Those who ruthlessly crush the farmers roam free and we are in police custody for 36 hours. The farmer families are mourning and there are celebrations in Lucknow,” Congress’s Deepender Singh Hooda – arrested yesterday with Priyanka Gandhi Vadra yesterday — tweeted in Hindi, signing it “From Police Lines Sitapur”.
After her arrest, Ms Gandhi Vadra had instructed NDTV, “If you can arrest us, why not the murder-accused minister’s son”.
Today, tweeting the viral video of the crash, Ms Gandhi Vadra tweeted, “@narendramodi Sir, your government has kept me in custody for the last 28 hours without any order and FIR. This person who crushed the annadata (farmers) has not been arrested yet. Why?”