Lakhimpur Kheri violence | SIT takes Union Minister's son, 3 others to recreate sequence of events

Amid tight security, the four accused were taken to the site of the incident on the Tikonia-Banbirpur road

October 14, 2021 03:31 pm | Updated October 15, 2021 09:37 am IST - Lakhimpur Kheri

Special Investigation Team personnel attempt to recreate the sequence of events leading to the incident in Uttar Pradesh’s Tikonia village as part of their ongoing investigation in Lakhimpur Kheri on October 14, 2021.

Special Investigation Team personnel attempt to recreate the sequence of events leading to the incident in Uttar Pradesh’s Tikonia village as part of their ongoing investigation in Lakhimpur Kheri on October 14, 2021.

The SIT probing the Lakhimpur Kheri violence on Thursday took Union Minister Ajay Mishra's son and three others arrested in the case to recreate the sequence of events leading to the incident in Uttar Pradesh’s Tikonia village.

Amid tight security, the four accused were taken to the site of the incident on the Tikonia-Banbirpur road, around 60 km from District Headquarters, Lakhimpur city, the police said.

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Eight people died in the October 3 violence and of them, four were farmers, allegedly knocked down by a vehicle carrying BJP workers. The other dead included two BJP workers and their driver. In the incident, a journalist was also killed.

Farmers claimed that Union Minister Ajay Mishra's son Ashish Mishra was in one of the vehicles, an allegation denied by him and his father who say they can produce evidence to prove he was at an event at that time.

Ashish Mishra 'Monu' was arrested in the case on October 9 after 12 hours of questioning, and a court has accepted his police custody from October 12 to October 15.

The other three — Shekhar Bharti was arrested on October 12, and Ankit Das and Latif alias Kale were arrested on October 13.

Das, Latif and Bharti are in police custody from October 14 to October 17.

On Thursday, investigators reached the District Jail premises in the morning to take Das, Latif and Bharti into police custody.

The trio were taken to the crime branch’s office at the Reserve Police Lines, which is near the district jail where main accused Ashish Mishra is lodged.

They were taken to Tikonia village by the Special Investigation Team (SIT) amid heavy security for further investigations, the police said.

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