New Delhi: Family members of the farmers who were killed in Lakhimpur Kheri violence have decided to move the Supreme Court seeking cancellation of bail of accused Ashish Mishra, the son of Union Minister Ajay Mishra. 
Ashish Mishra was granted bail just hours before the first phase of elections in Uttar Pradesh on February 10. 
On February 10, the Lucknow bench of the Allahabad High Court had granted bail to Ashish, he was arrested in connection to the killing of 8 people including four farmers in Lakhimpur Kheri. 
Four farmers were allegedly run over by an SUV while a driver and two BJP workers were allegedly lynched by angry farmers. A journalist also died in the violence.
Last week, advocates CS Panda and Shiv Kumar Tripathi had filed a plea in the top court challenging the bail granted to Ashish.
In the petition, the lawyers sought an independent probe into the matter, had argued, “How could the High Court Justice rest his reasoning on presumption and guesswork using the word 'might' to arrive at a conclusion that the said crime culminated in a possibility of the driver trying to speed up the vehicle to save himself. The said conclusion by the learned High Court justice is unsustainable in law."
The advocates also said that the reasoning of the high court suffers from the vices of non-application of judicial mind, and it took recourse to assumptions without the support of direct evidence.
On November 17, the Supreme Court has appointed Justice Rakesh Kumar Jain, former judge of the Punjab and Haryana High Court, to monitor the probe by Uttar Pradesh SIT.
The SC also reconstituted the SIT and inducted get three IPS officers who are not natives of the state - SB Shiradkar, Padmaja Chauhan, and Preetinder Singh.