Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath assured action on Friday Lakhimpur Kheri incident, saying that the guilty will not be spared. Speaking at an event in News18 UP, Adityanath said what happened Lakhimpur It was “an extremely sad incident” and no one has the right to take the law into their own hands.
On Sunday, an SUV of Union minister Ajay Mishra Teni’s son Ashish Mishra rammed a group of farmers returning to protest against the new agri-marketing laws, killing four farmers. In the violence that followed, three occupants of the vehicle and a journalist were killed.
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Teni’s son Ashish is also among the seven people mentioned in the FIR, but both he and his father have said that he was not present at the time of the incident.
“There is no place for violence in a democracy. Law is same for all. We will not spare the guilty,” the CM said.
So far, two out of seven people have been arrested, Lavkush of Banbirpur village and Ashish Pandey of Nighasan tehsil.
Speaking on the pace of arrest in the case, Adityanath said, “The Supreme Court has said that before arresting someone, we should have sufficient evidence against him.”
Adityanath’s statement came after Ashish Mishra missed the 10 am deadline to appear before the police for questioning.
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Earlier on Friday, the Supreme Court said that it was not satisfied with the steps taken by the Uttar Pradesh government in the Lakhimpur Kheri case. A bench headed by Chief Justice NV Ramana asked senior advocate Harish Salve, representing the Uttar Pradesh government, to inform the top police officer that the evidence and other relevant material in the case has not been destroyed.
“What message are you (the state) giving,” a bench of Justices Surya Kant and Hima Kohli said.
It asked the state whether the accused in other cases registered under Section 302 (murder) of the Indian Penal Code were also treated in a similar manner. “If you see the FIR, there is section 302. Do you treat other accused in the same manner?” the bench asked, terming it as a very serious allegation.
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