Lakhimpur violence: SIT takes Union minister Ajay Mishra’s son, 3 others to recreate sequence of occasions

The SIT probing the Lakhimpur Kheri violence on Thursday took Union Minister Ajay Mishra’s son and three others arrested within the case to recreate the sequence of occasions resulting in the incident in Uttar Pradesh’s Tikonia village. Amid tight safety, the three accused had been taken to the location of the incident on the Tikonia-Banbirpur highway, round 60 km from district headquarters Lakhimpur metropolis, police mentioned.

Eight individuals died within the October 3 violence and of them, 4 had been farmers, allegedly knocked down by a automobile carrying BJP staff.

Infuriated farmers then allegedly lynched some individuals within the automobiles. The opposite lifeless included two BJP staff and their driver. Within the incident, a journalist was additionally killed.

Farmers claimed that Union Minister Ajay Mishra’s son Ashish Mishra was in one of many automobiles, an allegation denied by him and his father who say they will produce proof to show he was at an occasion at the moment.

Ashish Mishra ‘Monu’ was arrested within the case on October 9 after 12 hours of questioning, and a courtroom has accepted his police custody from October 12 to October 15.

The opposite three — Shekhar Bharti was arrested on October 12, and Ankit Das and Latif alias Kale had been arrested on October 13.

Das, Latif and Bharti are in police custody from October 14 to October 17.

On Thursday, investigators reached the district jail premises within the morning to take Das, Latif and Bharti into police custody.

The trio had been taken to the crime department’s workplace on the Reserve Police Lines, which is close to the district jail the place predominant accused Ashish Mishra is lodged.

They had been taken to Tikonia village by the particular investigation crew (SIT) amid heavy safety for additional investigations, police mentioned.