{
 "no": 19,
 "id": "case-19",
 "sk": 20211003,
 "year": 2021,
 "date": "03 Oct 2021",
 "cat": "Rights and dissent",
 "sev": "red",
 "title": "Lakhimpur Kheri. A minister's son, farmers dead, no sacking",
 "stamp": "Minister kept post and re-nominated",
 "human": {
  "v": "<b>8</b> killed, four of them farmers, one a journalist, and in the reprisal two BJP workers and a driver",
  "est": false
 },
 "cost": {
  "v": "A Union minister's family accused of running down protesters, with no political consequence",
  "est": true
 },
 "what": "An SUV ploughed into farmers protesting the farm laws in Lakhimpur Kheri, UP. The vehicle was tied to the convoy of the family of Union Minister of State for Home Ajay Mishra Teni, and his son Ashish Mishra was named prime accused.",
 "dodge": "With an FIR naming the minister's son, the Prime Minister still did not ask Ajay Mishra to go, and he stayed on in the Home Ministry, only to be re-nominated by the BJP for the 2024 election. It took the Supreme Court to get the accused arrested and his bail cancelled. Power closed ranks around its own.",
 "ministers": [
  {
   "n": "Ajay Mishra Teni",
   "r": "MoS Home, not sacked"
  },
  {
   "n": "Narendra Modi",
   "r": "Prime Minister who declined to act"
  }
 ],
 "pos": "The minister and his son denied the son was present; the case is before the courts.",
 "alleg": "Ashish Mishra's role is <em>before the courts</em>. The accountability failure is that the minister paid no political price while the case ran.",
 "alt": "Step a minister aside pending a credible probe when his family is accused of killing protesters. That is the floor of ministerial responsibility.",
 "sources": [
  {
   "label": "SIT chargesheets minister's son",
   "url": "https://www.india.com/news/india/lakhimpur-kheri-violence-case-sit-files-5000-page-chargesheet-against-ministers-son-ashish-mishra-ajay-kumar-mishra-teni-anti-farm-law-protest-5168097/",
   "tier": 3
  },
  {
   "label": "Demand for Teni's dismissal",
   "url": "https://www.deccanherald.com/amp/story/india%2Ffarmers-workers-to-mark-black-day-on-tuesday-to-seek-ajay-mishra-tenis-dismissal-over-lakhimpur-kheri-killings-2709235",
   "tier": 2,
   "archiveUrl": "http://web.archive.org/web/20240217230002/https://www.deccanherald.com/amp/story/india/farmers-workers-to-mark-black-day-on-tuesday-to-seek-ajay-mishra-tenis-dismissal-over-lakhimpur-kheri-killings-2709235"
  }
 ],
 "estimates": {
  "deaths": 8
 },
 "caseUrl": "https://whoisresponsible.xyz/case/case-19/"
}