The top court directed that Ashish Mishra will not stay in Uttar Pradesh and NCT Delhi during interim bail and will leave Uttar Pradesh within one week of his release and shall not enter the State except for attending trial court proceedings.
He said, days before the Lakhimpur Kheri incident, the Prime Minister's beloved minister was threatening farmers to 'mend your ways or I will mend you' and a few days after that Lakhimpur Kheri massacre took place.
The Congress leader provided details of the case in which Mishra's acquittal in a murder case was challenged in the Allahabad High Court and the judgement is reserved since 2018.
Ashish Mishra has been named in the FIR lodged by the Uttar Pradesh Police in the violence at Tikunia on Sunday for allegedly mowing down farmers who were going to protest against Uttar Pradesh Deputy Chief Minister Keshav Prasad Maurya's visit to the Union Minister's ancestral village for a function.
Eight people were killed in the Sunday violence during a farmers' protest in Lakhimpur Kheri, claiming the lives of both farmers and BJP workers, just when UP Deputy Chief Minister Keshav Prasad Maurya was expected to visit the area.
Protests on farm laws in the UP district took a violent turn as unidentified persons opened fire at the farmers. Infuriated farmers set three jeeps on fire after some of the protestors were run over by the vehicles. One of the vehicles is said to belong to Ashish Mishra, son of the Union Minister.
