Ashis Mishra was sent to judicial custody by a magistrate shortly after his arrest late on Saturday night, but officers said the police special investigation team hoped to get his custody when the minister’s son is produced in court on Monday morning. A man who introduced himself as one of Ashis’s lawyers but didn’t give his name spoke to reporters before the district jail on Sunday. So, judicial magistrate Deeksha Bharti sent him to judicial custody and posted the case for Monday.”He said the legal team would apply for bail on Monday. He said Ashis had stonewalled some half a dozen of the 45-odd questions he was asked, and answered the rest evasively. “Asked which car in the convoy he was driving when some of the cars ploughed into the farmers, Ashis got irritated and said, ‘I have told you I was in the village’.

Source: The Telegraph October 10, 2021 20:26 UTC