Farmer leader Rakesh Tikait on Tuesday said that the United Kisan Morcha will approach the Supreme Court in the Lakhimpur Kheri violence case in which eight people, including four farmers, were killed and the son of a Union minister was among the accused. An office-bearer of the Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU) of Tikait said the SKM would appeal to the apex court to consider the matter again as the prosecution could not present its case during the online hearing due to power failure.
Union Minister Ajay Mishra’s son Ashish Mishra is the main accused in the case and was granted bail by the Allahabad High Court on February 10. Ashish was released from jail here on Tuesday evening. After the violence of October 3, 2021, the SC had constituted a Special Investigation Team (SIT) which had probed the matter and filed a chargesheet in the case with Ashish as an accused along with 13 others.
The most infamous Lakhimpur Kheri episode of Ajay and Ashish Mishra, who get bail within three months despite committing a heinous crime, is watched by the whole country and the whole world. Tikait told reporters that everyone is watching it and he will walk out of jail today and the SKM will approach the Supreme Court. “So is there a need for such a dictatorial government, or is there a need for such a system in which a person who crushes people under a vehicle, gets out of jail within three months. How will we deal with you? These are our issues which people need to understand, the BKU spokesperson said.
He claimed that during the online court hearing in the case, there was a power outage when the prosecution was speaking out but the entire issue could not be placed before the court. He also said that a person accused of criminal conspiracy under Section 120B of IPC is more dangerous than an accused under Section 302 (murder) of IPC.
BKU spokesperson Saurabh Upadhyay told PTI: The SKM will appeal to the apex court to consider the retrial in the case as the prosecution could not present its case during the online hearing due to power failure. BKU’s national spokesperson Tikait, a prominent face of the farmers’ movement and part of the SKM, also targeted the BJP-led Center and the UP government on issues related to the farming community and youth.
He pulled up the saffron party for contesting the elections on a communal agenda instead of working for development. Lakhimpur Kheri, famous for sugarcane cultivation, has eight assembly constituencies, Gola Gokarnath, Dhaurhara, Sri Nagar, Lakhimpur, Mohammadi, Kasta, Palia and Nighasan.
All eight assembly seats won by BJP candidates in 2017 will go to polls in the fourth phase of assembly elections in UP on February 23. The results of the elections will be declared on March 10.
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