A forensic report has showed that weapons recovered from Union minister Ajay Mishra's son Ashish Mishra and others after the Lakhimpur violence were fired.
Protesting farmers had alleged that Ashish Mishra had opened fire. Though the Forensic Science Laboratory (FSL) document showed that the guns have been discharged, it does no longer specify whether or not they have been fired on the day of the violence or a few other day.
Four guns, together with a rifle belonging to Ashish Mishra alias Monu Mishra, have been seized following the Lakhimpur violence. A pistol owned with the aid of Ankit Das, nephew of former Union minister Akhilesh Das, and a repeater gun, which turned into with Das' bodyguard Lateef Kale, had been additionally amongst them.
A forensic document of the fourth weapon, a revolver owned by using Das' aide Satya Prakash, is awaited.
"Of the four guns sent for ballistic examination to the FSL, it has been confirmed that firing occurred from 3, which include Ashish Mishra's rifle. However, the file did not confirm when the firing befell," a senior legitimate stated right here.
The special investigation crew (SIT) probing the case is yet to problem an respectable declaration at the FSL record.
After the arrest of Ashish Mishra, Das and Kale, the SIT had recovered their certified guns -- a rifle, pistol, revolver and a repeater gun -- and sent them for forensic exam on October 15.
According to the First Information Report (FIR) registered by means of the police on a grievance of Jagjit Singh, a local of Bahraich district, the whole episode was "premeditated" for which the "conspiracy become hatched" by using the minister and his son.
The FIR said that the farmers had gathered at the sports activities ground of the Maharaja Agrasen Inter-College on October 3 and they desired to peacefully display black flags to Ashish Mishra and Uttar Pradesh Deputy Chief Minister Keshav Prasad Maurya, who were traveling Banbirpur.
"Around 3 pm, Ashish Mishra, along with 15-20 armed men, in three speeding four-wheelers, reached the protest spot in Banbirpur. Ashish Mishra, who turned into seated at the left side of a Mahindra Thar, opened gunfire. The Thar mowed down the crowd and sped beforehand," the FIR stated.
"Because of the firing, farmer Gurvinder Singh, son of Sukhwinder, a resident of Matronia in Nanpara, died," it stated.
However, two successive autopsies performed on Gurvinder Singh had dominated out bullet accidents.
Ashish Mishra and 15-20 unnamed men have been noted as accused and charged with murder, criminal conspiracy, rash using, and rioting among others. Of them, police have up to now arrested thirteen.
Minister Ajay Mishra had refuted the allegations that his son became concerned in the episode that came about near his local Banbirpur village within the Tikonia region of the district.
The FIR has been lodged underneath Indian Penal Code sections 147, 148, 149 (all 3 related to rioting), 279 (rash using), 338 (reasons grievous hurt to any man or woman by means of doing any act so rashly or negligently as to hazard human existence), 304A (inflicting demise by way of negligence), 302 (murder), and 120B (birthday celebration to a crook conspiracy).
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