Lakhimpur: Ashish Mishra, son of Union minister of state for home affairs Ajay Kumar Mishra was asked to appear before the police at 10 am on Friday, October 8 in connection to the October 3 violence at Lakhimpur Kheri. However, as of 10;30, he had still not reached the police lines, sources said.
Upendra Agarwal, the deputy inspector general (headquarters) who is heading the probe team arrived at the office on time, they said.
“Ashish Mishra has not turned up till now,” an official source said around 10.30 am.
After two men were arrested on Thursday, the police pasted a notice outside his house asking him to appear before them in connection to the violence that claimed eight lives.
Four of the eight people who died on Sunday were farmers, allegedly mowed down by a vehicle carrying BJP workers. Angry farmers then allegedly lynched some people in the vehicles.
The other dead included two BJP workers and their driver.
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Farmers claimed that Ashish Mishra was in one of the vehicles, an allegation denied by him and his father who say they can produce evidence to prove he was at an event at that time.
A nine-member team headed by DIG Agarwal has been formed to investigate the FIR lodged against the minister’s son and others.
(PTI)