Indian minister’s son accused of killing protesting farmers with car arrested
- Four farmers died last Sunday when a car owned by Junior Home Minister Ajay Mishra ran over a group of protesters in Lakhimpur Kheri
- Farm leaders alleged that Mishra’s son Ashish was in the car when it ran over the protesters, but Mishra denied it. Ashish has now been arrested
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At least 8 people killed after car linked to official struck protesting farmers in India
Four farmers died last Sunday when a car owned by Junior Home Minister Ajay Mishra ran over a group of protesting farmers in Lakhimpur Kheri, a town in Uttar Pradesh state, officials and farm leaders said.
Farm leaders alleged that Mishra’s son was in the car when it ran over the protesters, but Mishra denied it. His driver and three members of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party, who were in a car, were all beaten to death with sticks by the protesters in the violence that broke out after the incident.
Police officer Upendra Agarwal said on Saturday that Ashish Misra was arrested following a day of questioning in the town after “he failed to furnish any supportive evidence to prove that he was not present in any of the three vehicles that ploughed through a crowd of farmers killing four of them.”
His father Ajay Mishra said that his son was innocent and that he was not present.