Farmers staged a protest on the railway track at Batala railway station for three hours on Sunday against the "forcible acquisition of their land" and in support of their demand for an increase in the minimum support price of sugarcane.
A four-year-old boy, who went to meet his brother in jail, was allegedly stamped on the cheek by the prison staff at Lakhimpuri Kheri of Uttar Pradesh, police said, adding that an investigation is underway.
Ashish Mishra, the main accused in the Tikunia incident in Lakhimpur Kheri district of Uttar Pradesh and son of Union Minister of State for Home Ajay Mishra Teni, has been released from the district jail late on Friday evening.
Granting an interim bail of eight weeks to Lakhimpur Kheri violence-accused Ashish Mishra, the Supreme Court on Wednesday directed him not to stay either in UP or Delhi during this period.
A bench of Justices Surya Kant and JK Maheshwari also imposed various other conditions including that Mishra will leave Uttar Pradesh within one week of his release.
On July 26, 2022, the Allahabad High Court denied bail to Ashish Mishra, the son of Union Minister Ajay Mishra, in connection with the Lakhimpur Kheri violence case. The bail was rejected by the Lucknow bench of Allahabad High Court.
The Uttar Pradesh government on Thursday opposed the bail plea of Ashish Mishra in the Lakhimpur Kheri violence case in the Supreme Court. The apex court, meanwhile, reserved its order on Ashish Mishra's bail plea.
The trial in the Lakhimpur Kheri violence case against
accused Ashish Mishra, according to a report will take five years to conclude, the Supreme Court noted on Wednesday.
"We will free around 450 hectares of land from the encroachers. Originally there were around 500 families, but after issuing notices from the administration nearly 300 families have left the area. And many families have left the area this morning also. We have deployed security personnel, bu
The Lakhimpur district administration of Assam on Tuesday started a massive eviction to clear around 500 hectares of forest land in the Pabho reserve forest in Lakhimpur district.