Around 11pm, Ashish Mishra was finally arrested.LAKHIMPUR KHERI: After nearly 12 hours of intense interrogation by the Special Investigation Team (SIT) on the Lakhimpur Kheri violence in which he has been accused of killing four farmers, Union minister of state for home Ajay Mishra Teni ’s son Ashish Mishra was arrested late on Saturday night.
Ashish had skipped summons by the SIT on Friday, after which a second notice had been issued asking him to appear.
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“He has been arrested for not cooperating with the investigation and giving evasive answers,” DIG Upendra Agarwal, who is heading the SIT, said on Saturday night.
Around 10.30am, Ashish entered the Lakhimpur Kheri crime branch office by the backdoor, escorted by over 10 cops.He was accompanied by two lawyers, Avdhesh Kumar Singh and Jitendra Singh .Ashish had been asked to appear at 11am in the second notice put up outside his house on Friday.”My client has come with video evidence to show he wasn’t there (the site of the killings) that day,” his counsel Singh said in the morning.
They also reportedly presented 12 affidavits of people saying Ashish was not at the Banbirpur violence site that day.
As internet services were suspended again, police from neighbouring districts had been called to Lakhimpur Kheri and SSB jawans were deployed.
BJP workers from across the district converged at the party office in Lakhimpur city.Security around the district jail and the collectorate was suddenly stepped up in the evening.
When asked if it was preparation for arrest, ADG (law and order) Prashant Kumar had earlier in the evening told TOI that he “didn’t know”.
He added, “Local police have taken their own decision to maintain law and order.”
A senior official from the administration, however, said the security was in place to prepare for both scenarios.”Whether he is arrested or not, we are ready for both.We have ensured required security to maintain law and order.The decision on his arrest rests with the SIT,” the official told TOI.
Around 11pm, Ashish was finally arrested.Police were preparing to take him before a remand magistrate at the time of filing the report.
Protesting farmers, meanwhile, had laid out their plan in the afternoon in case they “didn’t get justice for the four farmers’ deaths”.
“On the call of Samyukt Kisan Morcha (SKM), October 12 will be observed as Shaheed Kisan Diwas across the country,” they said.”SKM appeals to the farmers of UP and all over the country to pay tribute to the martyr farmers by attending the Antim Ardas (Bhog) on October 12 at Tikonia, a statement by SKM, the umbrella body of farmer organisations, added.
SKM also asked farmers’ organisations to organise special prayer meetings or tribute meetings for “martyr farmers” at their respective places on that day at “gurdwara, temple, mosque, church or any public place, toll plaza or morchas”.
If Teni is not sacked and Ashish not arrested, SKM had said, it would hold an Asthi Kalash Yatra with farmers marching and holding the ashes of those killed.They would also organise a country-wide rail roko on October 18 and a mahapanchayat in Lucknow on October 26, and “burn effigies” of PM Narendra Modi and Union home minister Amit Shah on Dussehra.
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