SUV that crushed Lakhimpur Kheri farmers not in Ajay Mishra affidavit, SP slams EC's 'double standards'

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Lucknow:While his son is on trial for the 2021 incident of a Mahindra Thar SUV running over four farmers and a journalist in Lakhimpur Kheri, Union Minister of State (MoS) Ajay Mishra Teni, who is contesting Lok Sabha elections from Kheri constituency, has in his affidavit said he owns zero vehicles, though he had previously admitted that the SUV was registered in his name...

Objecting to Tenis declaration, the Samajwadi Party (SP) has said that the Election Commission of India (ECI) cancelled its Khajurao candidates nomination form for a mere lack of a signature, so Tenis nomination form should also be cancelled because he has mentioned wrong information...

SP Khajurao candidates nomination stands cancelled on a petty issue, merely for the lack of a signature, but we are witnessing the election commission take no cognisance of the fact that Ajay Mishra, whose son is currently facing trial for crushing down farmers using a vehicle registered in his fathers name, has given wrong facts in his affidavit, he said...

Pawan Kashyap, brother of journalist Raman Kashyap, told ThePrint that the special investigative team (SIT), in a 5,000-page chargesheet submitted in 2022, said that the incident was orchestrated in a pre-planned manner as part of a conspiracy by the MoS and his son Ashish Mishra as confirmed by portions of the SIT report seen by ThePrint...

Based on a complaint, police had registered the Lakhimpur Kheri FIR under IPC sections 147 (rioting), 148 (rioting armed with deadly weapon), 149 (unlawful assembly), 279 (rash driving), 338 (causing grievous hurt to any person by doing any act so rashly or negligently as to endanger human life), 304 a (death by negligence), 302 (murder) and 120-b (criminal conspiracy)...