Lakhimpur Violence: Three days police custody to Union Minister's son, Supervision Committee had sought 14 days remand

Union Minister Ajay Mishra's son Ashish Mishra has been handed over to three days police remand by the CJM court in the ruckus that took place on October 3 at Tikunia in Lakhimpur Kheri. However, the supervisory committee had sought a remand of 14 days. The supervision committee will now interrogate Ashish Mishra by taking him into custody. During the hearing on Monday, Ashish Mishra was not presented in the court, but the hearing was held only through video conferencing. Earlier, after the completion of the arguments in the court, the court had reserved the decision.

Earlier, Crime Branch Inspector Vidyaram Diwakar appeared in the court with the case file. In the court, defense lawyer Awadhesh Dubey started giving his arguments. Awadhesh Dubey argued that whether you are seeking the custody remand of the accused for adopting third degree.

The defense counsel said that I was present at that time as the counsel for the accused during the investigation. There were only 40 questions in the list of questions that the SIT had, the entire team, DIG sir, SP and all the officers have questioned for three hours each, the team made a list of 40 questions. He said that the accused kept answering all the 40 questions one after the other, all the questions were answered in a sequential manner. It was said earlier that a copy of these questions will be provided to you. Later the copy was not provided.

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Defense lawyer said that you called at 11:00 and the accused appeared there at 10:45, the officers kept questioning about 40 questions for full 12 hours, the question which was there has been answered in a sequential manner. Gave pen drives, gave 150 photos. From 2:00 am to 2:30 pm till 3:00 pm all footage and all videos were given. Accused Ashish Mishra was present in the program of Monu Dangal.

Prosecution officer SP Yadav said that there are some witnesses, some witnesses have to face to face. It would not be appropriate to disclose the names of the witnesses to be confronted in the case. The defense lawyer said that whatevler is to be questioned, go to jail and do the interrogation.