Articles for Lakhimpur Violence

Lakhimpur Kheri case SIT told UP govt to scrap Ashish Misra's bail twice
2 years, 9 months ago

Lakhimpur Kheri case SIT told UP govt to scrap Ashish Misra's bail twice

India Today  

The Supreme Court-appointed committee has filed its status report in the Lakhimpur Kheri case. It said that the Special Investigation Team probing the case had recommended the cancellation of the bail granted to prime accused Ashish Mishra twice to the Uttar Pradesh government. Ashish Misra was accused of running over farmers who were in Lakhimpur Kheri in Uttar Pradesh while …

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Lakhimpur Kheri violence: Ashish Misra submits two bail bonds of Rs 3 lakh each in district court
2 years, 10 months ago

Lakhimpur Kheri violence: Ashish Misra submits two bail bonds of Rs 3 lakh each in district court

India Today  

A district court judge ordered BJP leader Ajay Misra Teni's son, Ashish Misra, a key accused in the Lakhimpur Kheri violence case, to submit two bail bonds of Rs 3 lakh each in regards to his bail orders. Ashish Misra's lawyer Avdesh Kumar Singh on Monday submitted the bail bonds in the court. After verifying the bond on Tuesday, the …

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'Minister is a criminal': Rahul Gandhi seeks Ajay Mishra's ouster over Lakhimpur violence in Lok Sabha
3 years ago

'Minister is a criminal': Rahul Gandhi seeks Ajay Mishra's ouster over Lakhimpur violence in Lok Sabha

India TV News  

Highlights Oppn has sharpened attack on govt over SIT report on Lakhimpur violence that claimed 8 lives in Oct The SIT probing Lakhimpur violence in its report said that it was a 'pre-planned conspiracy' 13 people have been arrested including Teni's son in connection with the case. Teni is MoS in MHA Senior Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Thursday called …

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Lakhimpur Kheri Case: Rahul Gandhi Demands Minister Ajay Mishra's Removal from Post, PM's Apology
3 years ago

Lakhimpur Kheri Case: Rahul Gandhi Demands Minister Ajay Mishra's Removal from Post, PM's Apology

News 18  

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday demanded that Union minister Ajay Mishra be removed from his post over the Lakhimpur Kheri violence and said it is time for Prime Minister Narendra Modi to apologise once again. His remarks came after the Special Investigation Team probing the violence, which claimed eight lives including that of four farmers, urged the chief judicial …

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Lakhimpur Kheri case: Relatives of Ashish Misra visited him often in jail, reveals RTI
3 years, 1 month ago

Lakhimpur Kheri case: Relatives of Ashish Misra visited him often in jail, reveals RTI

India Today  

Ashish Misra, son of Union Minister of State Ajay Misra and the prime accused in the Lakhimpur Kheri violence case, is at present cooling his heels behind bars. An RTI activist from Bengaluru, T Narasimha Murthy, wrote to the Public Information Officer of Lakhimpur district jail on October 16, requesting extracts from the visitors’ diary regarding undertrial Ashish Misra. On …

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Overlapping interests: The Hindu Editorial on U.P. Police probe into Lakhimpur Kheri violence
3 years, 1 month ago

Overlapping interests: The Hindu Editorial on U.P. Police probe into Lakhimpur Kheri violence

The Hindu  

The Supreme Court of India continues to question the tardy progress in the ongoing probe into the October 3 violence during a farmers’ protest at Tikonia in Lakhimpur-Kheri district, a situation that reflects poorly on the Uttar Pradesh police and administration. In its latest expression of dissatisfaction, the Court has indicated that it would like a retired High Court judge …

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Lakhimpur Violence: SKM suspends Yogendra Yadav over visiting BJP worker's house
3 years, 2 months ago

Lakhimpur Violence: SKM suspends Yogendra Yadav over visiting BJP worker's house

India TV News  

The Sanyukt Kisan Morcha on Thursday suspended activist Yogendra Yadav for 1 month over his visit to the residence of deceased BJP worker's residence who lost his life during the Lakhimpur violence. Yogendra Yadav had earlier visited the residence of BJP worker Shubham Mishra, who was killed in the Lakhimpur violence and had expressed condolences to the family members. The …

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Lakhimpur violence case: SIT releases photos of six suspects
3 years, 2 months ago

Lakhimpur violence case: SIT releases photos of six suspects

The Hindu  

The Special Investigation Team probing the Lakhimpur Kheri violence case on Tuesday released pictures of six people standing near an SUV, which was set ablaze during the October 3 incident. The Yogi Adityanath government in Uttar Pradesh had set up the SIT to investigate the Lakhimpur Kheri violence case in which eight people, including four farmers, were killed. Two FIRs …

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Lakhimpur Kheri violence | SIT takes Union Minister's son, 3 others to recreate sequence of events
3 years, 2 months ago

Lakhimpur Kheri violence | SIT takes Union Minister's son, 3 others to recreate sequence of events

The Hindu  

The SIT probing the Lakhimpur Kheri violence on Thursday took Union Minister Ajay Mishra's son and three others arrested in the case to recreate the sequence of events leading to the incident in Uttar Pradesh’s Tikonia village. Farmers claimed that Union Minister Ajay Mishra's son Ashish Mishra was in one of the vehicles, an allegation denied by him and his …

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Lakhimpur Kheri violence: SIT takes Ashish Mishra to site to recreate crime scene
3 years, 2 months ago

Lakhimpur Kheri violence: SIT takes Ashish Mishra to site to recreate crime scene

India TV News  

The Special Investigation Team, probing the Lakhimpur Kheri incident, on Thursday, recreated the crime scene in the presence of four accused, including Union Minister's son Ashish Mishra and his friend Ankit Das, gunman Latif and driver Shekhar Bharti. The entire area, where the October 3 incident took place, in which four farmers were mowed down by an SUV and five …

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Lakhimpur Kheri violence | Farmers to hold a series of protests
3 years, 2 months ago

Lakhimpur Kheri violence | Farmers to hold a series of protests

The Hindu  

The Samyukt Kisan Morcha, a coalition of farmers’ unions, has planned a series of protests demanding action in the Lakhimpur Kheri violence. On October 15, the farmers would hold an effigy burning event and a big ‘panchayat’ would be held in Lucknow on October 26, Mr. Tikait said. Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, who visited Lakhimpur Kheri on Tuesday, paid …

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Lakhimpur Kheri violence | Farmers’ fight will go on till Union Minister quits: Tikait
3 years, 2 months ago

Lakhimpur Kheri violence | Farmers’ fight will go on till Union Minister quits: Tikait

The Hindu  

At the final prayers for the four farmers and one journalist killed in Lakhimpur Kheri’s Tikonia, where hundreds of farmers and politicians converged on Tuesday, BKU spokesperson Rakesh Tikait demanded the arrest of Union Minister of State for Home Ajay Kumar Mishra. The Minister’s son Ashish Mishra was sent to three-day police custody on Monday for the murder charge against …

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Lakhimpur violence: Ashish Mishra taken to Crime Branch office for interrogation
3 years, 2 months ago

Lakhimpur violence: Ashish Mishra taken to Crime Branch office for interrogation

The Hindu  

The Uttar Pradesh Police took MoS Home Ajay Mishra’s son Ashish Mishra to the Crime Branch office in Lakhimpur Kheri on October 12 for interrogation in the Lakhimpur Kheri violence case, a day after a court sent him to three-day police custody, an official said. Chief Judicial Magistrate Chintaram on October 11 had granted three-day police remand, with the condition …

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Lakhimpur Kheri violence | Congress delegation to meet President
3 years, 2 months ago

Lakhimpur Kheri violence | Congress delegation to meet President

The Hindu  

A seven-member Congress delegation, led by former party chief Rahul Gandhi, will call on President Ram Nath Kovind on Wednesday to hand over a “memorandum of facts” on the Lakhimpur Kheri incident. The principal Opposition party alleged that Mr. Mishra’s son, Ashish, was driving the vehicle that allegedly crushed four farmers under its wheels and the Minister had earlier used …

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UP Police arrests one more person in Lakhimpur Kheri violence case, sent to 14-day judicial custody
3 years, 2 months ago

UP Police arrests one more person in Lakhimpur Kheri violence case, sent to 14-day judicial custody

India Today  

A Chief Judicial Magistrate court sent one of the accused arrested in Lakhimpur Kheri violence case to 14-day judicial custody after the police arrested him on Tuesday. Senior prosecution officer SP Yadav said they have sought 14-day police custody of Shekhar Bharti and the hearing in this regard will take place on Wednesday. Farmers have also alleged that two other …

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Lakhimpur violence: MoS Ajay Mishra's son Ashish sent to 3-day police custody
3 years, 2 months ago

Lakhimpur violence: MoS Ajay Mishra's son Ashish sent to 3-day police custody

India TV News  

The Uttar Pradesh Police got a three-day remand of Union minister Ajay Mishra's son Ashish in connection with the Lakhimpur Kheri violence case on Monday. The police remand was granted by Chief Judicial Magistrate Chintaram, with the condition that Ashish Mishra will not be harassed and his lawyer will remain present during interrogation, Yadav said. Mishra was named in an …

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Lakhimpur violence: Ashish Mishra sent to 14-day judicial custody, under Covid quarantine in jail
3 years, 2 months ago

Lakhimpur violence: Ashish Mishra sent to 14-day judicial custody, under Covid quarantine in jail

India TV News  

Union minister Ajay Mishra’s son, who was arrested in connection with the Lakhimpur Kheri violence, has been remanded in judicial custody for 14 days and placed under Covid quarantine in the district jail here, officials said on Sunday. Ashish Mishra was produced before a court late on Saturday night after around 12 hours of questioning over the violence, in which …

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Rail blockade, rally, mahapanchayat to protest Lakhimpur Kheri incident
3 years, 3 months ago

Rail blockade, rally, mahapanchayat to protest Lakhimpur Kheri incident

India Today  

Social activist and Samyukt Kisan Morcha leader Yogendra Yadav said on Saturday that the Samyukta Kisan Morcha will start the Shaheed Kisan Kalash Yatra from Lakhimpur on October 12. ARREST AJAY MISRA, ASHISH Meanwhile, farmer leaders on Saturday demanded that Union minister Ajay Misra and his son, Ashish Misra, be arrested in the Lakhimpur Kheri violence case, and said the …

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Lakhimpur Kheri violence: Accused Ashish Mishra's whereabouts unknown, reports say he may have fled to Nepal
3 years, 3 months ago

Lakhimpur Kheri violence: Accused Ashish Mishra's whereabouts unknown, reports say he may have fled to Nepal

India TV News  

Ashish Mishra, son of Union minister, Ajay Mishra Teni, failed to turn up before the Lakhimpur police on Friday to record his statement. According to police sources, the police had been tracking Ashish Mishra's mobile phone and his location was found to be near Gauriphanta on the Uttar Pradesh-Nepal border on Thursday. Meanwhile, workers at his Dulari House residence in …

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Lakhimpur Kheri violence | Two arrested; Union Minister’s son summoned
3 years, 3 months ago

Lakhimpur Kheri violence | Two arrested; Union Minister’s son summoned

The Hindu  

The Uttar Pradesh police have arrested two persons and issued a summon to Ashish Mishra, son of Union Minister of State for Home Affairs Ajay Mishra, for questioning in connection with the Lakhimpur Kheri incident. Amid demands for Mr. Ashish Mishra’s arrest in the murder case, the police issued him a summon to appear at the Reserve Police Lines in …

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'Hope for justice', says Mayawati after Supreme Court intervening in Lakhimpur Kheri violence case
3 years, 3 months ago

'Hope for justice', says Mayawati after Supreme Court intervening in Lakhimpur Kheri violence case

India TV News  

Bahujan Samaj Party supremo Mayawati on Thursday said that there is hope for justice in the Lakhimpur violence case as the Supreme Court has intervened in the matter and sought a status report from the Uttar Pradesh government. "The hearing started by the Supreme Court in the Lakhimpur incident gave hope to the people for relief and proper justice, as …

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Rahul Gandhi trying to misrepresent situation in Lakhimpur Kheri: BJP
3 years, 3 months ago

Rahul Gandhi trying to misrepresent situation in Lakhimpur Kheri: BJP

Hindustan Times  

The Bharatiya Janata Party on Wednesday accused Congress leader Rahul Gandhi of trying to misrepresent the situation in Uttar Pradesh’s Lakhimpur Kheri following Sunday’s violence that was triggered when a vehicle ran over protesting farmers and left eight people dead. BJP said the Lakhimpur Kheri incident was saddening and both farmers’ organisations and the government have agreed to an impartial …

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Lakhimpur Kheri violence | Arrests will be made based on evidence, says police officer
3 years, 3 months ago

Lakhimpur Kheri violence | Arrests will be made based on evidence, says police officer

The Hindu  

A senior police officer in Uttar Pradesh has said arrests in the Lakhimpur Kheri case — in which Union Minister Ajay Mishra’s son Ashish Mishra is accused of murder and criminal conspiracy — will be made after the police get evidence and corroborate it. Eight people died in the incident on Sunday — four farmers, two BJP workers, a driver …

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Exclusive: Didn't think I'd come out alive, recalls Lakhimpur Kheri violence eyewitness
3 years, 3 months ago

Exclusive: Didn't think I'd come out alive, recalls Lakhimpur Kheri violence eyewitness

India Today  

Pawan Gupta, a block pramukh leader of Lakhimpur Kheri, spoke to India Today TV about the violent clashes on Sunday that led to 8 deaths and said that he felt he would not come out of it alive. Pawan Gupta was seen in the black Scorpio car in one of the viral videos of the Lakhimpur Kheri incident. As seen …

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