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New Delhi: The Uttar Pradesh police have informed the Supreme Court that they have not found any evidence linking former Union minister Ajay Kumar Mishra ‘Teni’ and his son Ashish Mishra to the alleged intimidation of a witness in the 2021 Lakhimpur Kheri violence case.

The father-son duo, along with former zilla panchayat member Amandeep Singh and an unidentified individual were booked last October for allegedly intimidating Baljinder Singh to prevent him from recording his testimony. Baljinder Singh was an eyewitness in the 2021 violence case in which Ashish Mishra alias ‘Monu’ is the main accused.

An FIR was registered against the father-son duo and the other two in October last year on charges of criminal conspiracy, criminal intimidation and threatening a witness to give false evidence. The case was registered by Lakhimpur Kheri police on the explicit directions of the Supreme Court. The complainant Baljinder Singh had knocked on the doors of the apex court after the local police had allegedly refused to register his complaint.

Baljinder Singh alleged that he had been intimidated twice in August 2023.

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The 2021 Lakhimpur Kheri case

Eight persons were killed in the Lakhimpur Kheri violence case of 2021 – four farmers, one journalist, two BJP workers and their driver. Ashish Mishra is the main accused in the killing of the four farmers and the journalist.

Farmers pay respect to deceased farmers and a reporter in the Lakhimpur........

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