A day after a automobile owned by him, one of many three males who crushed 4 farmer protesters in Uttar Pradesh’s Lakhimpur Kheri, on Monday, Ajay Mishra introduced that no case was pending in opposition to him.
What the Lakhimpur Kheri MP omitted was this: A revision petition has been pending within the Allahabad High Court in opposition to his acquittal in a homicide case since 2000.
The relations who filed the petition say that they’re now dwelling in fixed worry. “We are taking all precautions because now the opposite party is the Union Minister of State for Home,” says Rajeev Gupta (45).
Gupta’s elder brother, Prabhat Gupta was shot useless on July 8, 2000. Mishra and three others – Subhash alias Mama, Shashi Bhushan and Rakesh alias Dalu – have been booked together with Prabhat’s household, alleging that the homicide was a results of “political rivalry”. “
In 2004, an area court docket in Lakhimpur Kheri acquitted the 4, together with Mishra, after which the state authorities approached the excessive court docket, whereas the sufferer’s household filed a revision petition.
According to a PTI report, the petitions have been heard and the Lucknow bench of the Allahabad High Court reserved its verdict on March 12, 2018. However, earlier than the judgment was pronounced by a bench of Justice Devendra Kumar Upadhyay and Justice Dinesh Kumar Singh, it was re-listed, the report stated, requiring additional listening to.
The Allahabad High Court web site exhibits that the matter was final taken up on February 5, 2019.
“From the day we filed the revision petition, we have been kept under constant surveillance by the people of Ajay Mishra. To pressurize me so that I do not pursue the matter, four false cases were registered against me. The court has acquitted me in all the four cases,” stated Rajiv Gupta.
While Ajay Mishra couldn’t be contacted for remark, three of his legal professionals dismissed the fees and identified that Prabhat and Rajiv’s brother Sanjeev Gupta have been convicted by an area court docket of firing at Mishra when he was in his personal proper. have been on the best way. Court.
Confirming the incident, Rajeev Gupta stated that it occurred after Prabhat was shot. “My brother Sanjeev is out of jail now. But Mishra had additionally filed false circumstances in opposition to my relations to harass us.
Mishra’s counsel Salil Kumar Srivastava and Gajendra Pratap stated they weren’t conscious of the standing of the revision petition. “Ajay Mishra and others were acquitted on merit in the murder case,” Srivastava stated.
Mishra has been related to the BJP for a very long time and in 2012 he efficiently contested the meeting elections from Nighasan on a BJP ticket. He is the MP of Lakhimpur Kheri since 2014.
According to Mishra’s affidavit for the 2012 elections, he was going through three counts, together with certainly one of homicide. The affidavit states that he has been acquitted in all of the circumstances. Another counsel for Mishra, Awadhesh Singh, stated: “At present there is no case pending against Ajay Mishra.”
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
