While raising questions over some charges pressed against Ashish Mishra, the court said he was entitled to bail as he had appeared before the police when summoned and a charge-sheet was already filed in the case.
The report, formulated after speaking to eyewitnesses, locals and farmers' families and going through the videos in the public domain, raises many questions about the official narrative surrounding the incident, the role of the UP police and more.
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 three accused were taken to the site of the incident on the Tikonia-Banbirpur road, around 60 km from district headquarters