PM Modi put his best men to defend the bail of a murderer; ex-solicitor general Ranjit Kumar & BJP MP Mahesh Jethmalani represented Ashish Mishra & UP Government respectively: Saurabh Bhardwaj
Yogi Government and UP Police are tirelessly working to protect Union MoS Ajay Mishra Teni’s son Ashish Mishra by weakening the case: Saurabh Bhardwaj
Supreme Court reprimanded the UP Government and Police by saying they’re deliberately putting hurdles in the investigation to protect their Union MoS & his son: Saurabh Bhardwaj
The retired Haryana High Court Judge who is heading the SIT asked UP Govt to appeal against the bail in his affidavit but the BJP didn’t listen to him too: Saurabh Bhardwaj
BJP protects goons & miscreants; if murderers and rapists join BJP they are honoured with Tiranga Yatras: Saurabh Bhardwaj
NEW DELHI:
The Aam Aadmi Party today lashed out at the BJP for misusing the state machinery to protect criminals. AAP Chief Spokesperson and MLA Shri Saurabh Bhardwaj questioned why the BJP had deployed everyone from the PM Office to UP CM Office to protect a murderer who mercilessly ran over farmers. He stated — PM Modi put his best men to defend the bail of a murderer; ex-solicitor general Ranjit Kumar & BJP MP Mahesh Jethmalani represented Ashish Mishra & UP Government respectively. Yogi Government and UP Police are tirelessly working to protect Union MoS Ajay Mishra Teni’s son Ashish Mishra by weakening the case. Supreme Court reprimanded the UP Government and Police by saying they’re deliberately putting hurdles in the investigation to protect their Union MoS & his son. The retired Haryana High Court Judge who is heading the SIT asked UP Govt to appeal against the bail in his affidavit but the BJP didn’t listen to him too. BJP protects goons & miscreants; if murderers and rapists join BJP they are honoured with Tiranga Yatras.
AAP Chief Spokesperson and MLA Shri Saurabh Bhardwaj said, “Back in October 2021, Ashish Mishra, the son of a sitting minister Ajay Mishra, ran his father’s car over farmers who were protesting peacefully in Lakhimpur Kheri. This irresponsible and deliberate crash claimed the lives of four innocent farmers. This incident was caught on camera, in which it was distinctly visible that a Union Minister’s car, driven by the minister’s son himself, ran over harmless protestors. A week before this incident, Union MoS Ajay Mishra had threatened the farmers warning them that he will ‘deal with them’. And soon after that this horrific episode took place – a premeditated crime, a brutal murder of innocent farmers, which was clearly orchestrated by his son and other BJP workers as has been recorded on video camera as evidence for all to see.”
He continued, “In the initial days following the incident, the police refused to register an FIR or to put Ajay Mishra’s son’s name in it. After a great deal of pressure and convincing, the police agreed to file an FIR in Ashish Mishra’s name. Post this, despite a murder case being registered under vital Sections of the IPC, which included 302, 120(b), 338, 304, 142, and 149, the minister’s son was not being arrested. Once the matter reached the Supreme Court, the bench asked the UP Police for any other case in which a perpetrator booked for murder under Section 302 of the IPC has not been arrested. Summons were being sent to the accused, who refused to show up, and yet the police had failed to arrest Ashish Mishra. Eventually, after the apex court issued the directions, he was arrested. Following this, the victims’ families had to repeatedly knock at the Supreme Court’s door for justice, after which it came to light that the entire BJP government in UP and at the Centre was dedicated to protecting a murderer.”
He added, “It was also brought to public notice that the Supreme Court directed the UP Police to change the IPS officers which were initially assigned the case for investigation. The officers in SIT were changed and mandated by the SC, including the retired High Court judge who was overseeing the SIT. The Supreme Court changed him citing that the judge belonged to Uttar Pradesh, and a retired judge from Punjab or Haryana High Court should be instituted in his place, who took over the work. Additionally, the police was also interrogated for not recording evidence on the matter despite the vast number of witnesses and corroboration, and asked why they did not record statements under Section-164 in the District Magistrate. The Supreme Court further directly questioned the UP Police concerning three evident matters: one, the delay in forensic examination of the photo & videographic evidence which had widely begun to circulate in the media by then; two, non seizure of mobile phones of all the accused persons; and three, the clubbing of various FIRs to make the matter appear less significant. On one hand, the FIR was registered against the murder of farmers as a result of being run over by a car. On the other, the BJP workers registered another FIR in the name of mob lynching. After this, the UP police deliberately merged the two FIRs to convolute the matter further, which was ultimately stopped by the SC.”
The MLA continued, “Following these directions, the Supreme Court kept a close watch on the UP Police as well as the UP Government and interrogated them about their conspiracy to hinder investigation and protect their party’s Cabinet Minister and his son in broad daylight. It was made clear in front of the Supreme Court that the police and government in UP were shamelessly defending and standing with actual murderers from the BJP. Today, there was a hearing of the Lakhimpur Kheri murder case at the Supreme Court. Noticeably, in this case, the BJP Government in UP did not appeal to any higher court against the wrongfully granted bail to one of the accused. Normally, when an accused is granted bail, the government goes to a different or higher court to contest it. The head of the SC-mandated SIT, a retired judge from Punjab-Haryana HC, has issued an affidavit stating that it was he who urged the UP Government to appeal against the bail, despite which the government took no such action. Hence, the families that lost their loved ones to the horrific crash were compelled to appeal to the Supreme Court, to complain that they did not receive a hearing at the High Court. It is shameful that the Supreme Court has to write against the UP High Court’s irresponsible dismissal and refusal to listen to the victims’ families. Without listening to the complainants, the accused Ashish Mishra, Ajay Mishra’s son, was granted bail in the murder case. They did not even come to the aid of the victim, their family had to approach the court themselves against the bail. Despite the SIT asking them to do so, they did not come forward and the victim had to approach the court directly.”
He further stated, “The Supreme Court wrote clearly, ‘The denial of victims to be heard and the tearing hurry shown by the HC merits the setting aside of bail order… The order can’t be sustained and has to be set aside’. The bench observed that the victims have an unbridled right to participate in all proceedings, including bail hearings. The Top Court also criticised the High Court for entering into factual merits, which are the subject of the trial. The whole system from the PMO to the officers of the UP Government came down to the level of unabashedly defending a murderer who ruthlessly ran over a group of farmers. Who were the lawyers in the case? Ranjeet Kumar for Ashish Mishra and Mahesh Jethmalani for UP Government. Who is Mahesh Jethmalani? A BJP MP, a national executive member of the party. Who is Ranjeet Kumar? The solicitor general of PM Modi’s government of 2014. The whole administration and the BJP came out to protect a murderer. Won’t it be apt to say that the BJP protects goons, hooligans and murderers? If you are a rapist or a murder you should definitely join the BJP because they will not just honour you but take out a whole yatra for you. They did so in Kathua. The whole administration came out to protect the rapists in Hathras. When it came to Kuldeep Singh Sengar, the party took out a whole rally to claim his innocence. Every goon, murderer and rapists supports them and expects support from them. The BJP thinks patriotism means protecting criminals.”