Lakhimpur violence case: HC decide recuses himself from listening to Ashish Mishra’s bail plea afresh

Express News Service

LUCKNOW: Justice Rajeev Singh of the Lucknow bench of Allahabad High Court on Wednesday recused himself from listening to the bail plea of Ashish Mishra, key accused within the Lakhimpur Kheri violence case. The matter would subsequent be listed after the nomination of a brand new decide for listening to the plea.

Ashish Mishra, son of MoS Ajai Mishra Teni, is going through a case of homicide which he’s accused of committing throughout a farmers’ protest that had turned violent in Lakhimpur Kheri on October 3, 2021. In the incident, Mishra had allegedly ploughed his SUV into the group of protesting farmers crushing 4 of them to demise on the spot.

The High Court bench, comprising Justice Rajeev Singh, had granted bail to Ashish Mishra on February 10, 2022. Thereafter, the HC order granting bail to Mishra was challenged within the Supreme Court of India after an SLP was filed by the family of the deceased farmers.

On April 18, the apex court docket had put aside the Allahabad HC order granting bail to Mishra and requested the accused to give up inside per week. The SC had even admonished the High Court for granting the bail to Mishra bearing in mind irrelevant concerns and denying the precise of listening to to the sufferer. Cancelling the bail granted to Ashish Mishra, the apex court docket despatched again his bail utility to the High Court for a contemporary resolution on deserves after affording the precise of listening to to the sufferer.

Following the order of the apex court docket, Mishra surrendered on April 24 and was despatched to jail. Accordingly, the bail petition was listed earlier than the Lucknow Bench of the High Court on Wednesday. As it got here up earlier than Justice Rajeev Singh, who had earlier allowed Ashish’s plea, he recused himself from listening to and directed the workplace to put the file earlier than the Chief Justice for a contemporary nomination of decide.