New Delhi: Ashish Mishra, son of Union Minister of State for Home Affairs Ajay Mishra Teni, has reached the police station in connection with the Lakhimpur Kheri case on Saturday.
On Thursday, the UP police had pasted a summon letter outside his residence, asking him to appear before the police inquiry related to the Lakhimpur Kheri case in which eight people were killed.
Awadhesh Kumar, the legal advisor of Ashish Mishra, told reporters here on Saturday, “We respect the notice and are ready to cooperate in the investigation.”
Ashish was asked to appear before police on Friday but he had missed the date citing health reasons.
As many as eight people died in the Lakhimpur Kheri incident on October 3, said Uttar Pradesh police.
The Uttar Pradesh Police had filed an FIR for murder against Ashish Mishra.
Samyukta Kisan Morcha, an umbrella body of several farmer unions, alleged that Ashish Mishra Teni, son of Union Minister of State for Home Affairs Ajay Mishra Teni arrived with three vehicles around the time that farmers were dispersing from their protest at the helipad and mowed down farmers and towards the end also attacked SKM leader Tajinder Singh Virk directly, by trying to run a vehicle over him.
Meanwhile, Punjab Congress chief Navjot Singh Sidhu ended his hunger strike on Saturday after the son of MoS Home Affairs Ajay Mishra Teni, Ashish Mishra, appeared before the crime branch in Lakhimpur Kheri violence.
Sidhu on Friday had started a hunger strike in Lakhimpur at the house of journalist Raman Kashyap, who died in the violence on October 3. Sidhu was demanding the arrest of Union Minister of State for Home Affairs Ajay Mishra Teni’s son Ashish Mishra.
As many as eight people died in the Lakhimpur Kheri incident on October 3, said Uttar Pradesh police.
