Moments after Supreme Court cancelled the bail of Ashish Mishra, opposition Congress launched scathing attack on BJP and union minister. Congress leaders asked when Prime Minister Narendra Modi will sack Ajay Mishra.
New Delhi: Asking to surrender in a week, Supreme Court on Monday cancelled the bail granted to Ashish Mishra, son of union minister Ajay Mishra, in connection with Lakhimpur Kheri violence case. The Apex Court observed that the Allahabad High Court had shown “tearing hurry” in giving relief and adopted a “myopic view of the evidence”.
Noting that a ‘victim’ has unbridled participatory rights from the stage of investigation till the culmination of the proceedings in an appeal or revision, Supreme Court said that the ‘victims’ were denied “a fair and effective hearing” in the high court. It said that the high court deserved to be set aside as it cannot be sustained.
According to the UP Police FIR, four protesting farmers were mowed down by a vehicle, in which union minister’s son Ashish Mishra was seated in Lakhimpur. After the incident, driver and two BJP members were also killed by the angry farmers. A media person had also lost his life during the incident. A total of eitght people were killed in the incident.
The opposition parties had demanded strict penal action against union minister’s son who had denied his presence at the incident spot. The farmers’ bodies, too, had claimed that the minister’s son mowed farmers to death. Following the development, UP Police had filed a case in which Ashish Mishra is the main accused.
Moments after Supreme Court cancelled the bail of Ashish Mishra, opposition Congress launched scathing attack on BJP and union minister. Congress leaders asked when Prime Minister Narendra Modi will sack Ajay Mishra. Hailing the SC”s order, Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU) leader Rakesh Tikait also demanded resignation of the minister.
