Lakhimpur Kheri Case: Family Of Deceased Farmers Move Supreme Court Against Bail Granted To Ashish Mishra
Live LawA special leave petition has been filed before the Supreme Court challenging the Allahabad High Court's order granting bail to Ashish Mishra, the prime accused in the Lakhimpur Kheri violence incident which had claimed lives of 8 people. According to the petitioners, the impugned order is perverse because the chargesheet in the case was filed on 03.01.2022, however the bail applicant did not bring the same on record before the High Court and the High Court neither considered nor dealt with the overwhelming evidence against the accused in chargesheet The petition filed through Advocate Prashant Bhushan, has stated that the lack of any discussion in the High Court's order as regards the settled principles for grant of bail is on account of lack of any substantive submissions to this effect by the State as the accused wields substantial influence over the State government as his father is a Union Minister from the same political party that rules the State. The Uttar Pradesh Police on January 3 had filed a charge sheet in the Lakhimpur Kheri Violence case before a local Court in Lakhimpur naming Union Minister Ajay Mishra's son, Ashish Mishra as the prime accused. The Supreme Court in November 2021 appointed Justice Rakesh Kumar Jain, former judge of the Punjab and Haryana High Court, to monitor the investigation in the Lakhimpur Kheri violence.