During the hearing today, Senior Counsel Mukul Rohatgi, appearing for Mishra, presented a case of alibi, maintaining that Mishra was not in the car which mowed down the protesters.
“The fact that he was not in the car, no one died in firing is a matter of record. Photograph shows person in the car was one Sumit Jaiswal. Driver and one more in the car were pulled out and killed on the spot. SIT material shows all this. I was at the Akhada side near the jungle, which is held every year where my father, and the deputy CM also comes every year. It is not some alibi cooked up that I was in some hotel. I was not at the site,” Rohatgi said.
Rohatgi further said that the driver of the car panicked after stones were pelted at the car and that caused him to speed up leading to the accident.
“He (driver) tried to run because stones were being thrown on the car. If you throw stones, someone will have to speed away. Nobody was killed by the bullet, I have a licensed gun,” Rohatgi contended.
He also pointed out that Mishra had already spent one year in jail after his arrest in 2021.
Source: Barandbench
