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LUCKNOW: Justice Rajeev Singh of the Lucknow bench of Allahabad Prime Court docket on Wednesday recused himself from listening to the bail plea of Ashish Mishra, key accused within the Lakhimpur Kheri violence case. The subject would subsequent be indexed after the nomination of a brand new pass judgement on for listening to the plea.
Ashish Mishra, son of MoS Ajai Mishra Teni, is dealing with a case of homicide which he’s accused of committing all the way through a farmers’ protest that had grew to become violent in Lakhimpur Kheri on October 3, 2021. Within the incident, Mishra had allegedly ploughed his SUV into the gang of protesting farmers crushing 4 of them to dying at the spot.
The Prime Court docket bench, comprising Justice Rajeev Singh, had granted bail to Ashish Mishra on February 10, 2022. Thereafter, the HC order granting bail to Mishra was once challenged within the Perfect Court docket of India after an SLP was once filed via the kinfolk 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 every week. The SC had even admonished the Prime Court docket for granting the bail to Mishra allowing for beside the point concerns and denying the proper of listening to to the sufferer. Cancelling the bail granted to Ashish Mishra, the apex court docket despatched again his bail utility to the Prime Court docket for a recent determination on deserves after affording the proper of listening to to the sufferer.
Following the order of the apex court docket, Mishra surrendered on April 24 and was once despatched to prison. Accordingly, the bail petition was once indexed earlier than the Lucknow Bench of the Prime Court docket on Wednesday. Because it got here up earlier than Justice Rajeev Singh, who had previous allowed Ashish’s plea, he recused himself from listening to and directed the place of business to put the record earlier than the Leader Justice for a recent nomination of pass judgement on.