Ashish Mishra hospitalised with dengue symptoms

Union minister Ajay Kumar Mishra’s son Ashish Mishra, who is currently in jail in connection with the Lakhimpur Kheri violence, has been shifted to a government hospital on suspicion of dengue and his sample has been sent to a laboratory for confirmation of the disease.

“It is not confirmed as to whether he (Mishra) is suffering from dengue. His sample was sent for testing on Friday. The picture will be clear once the report comes," Superintendent of the Lakhimpur Kheri district jail PP Singh said.

The four farmers and a local journalist were killed on October 3 when an SUV belonging to Mishra ran over a group of farmers returning from a protest against the new farm laws in Lakhimpur’s Tikunia. Two BJP workers and Mishra’s driver were killed in the violence that followed.