The nephew of Union Minister of State for Home Ajay Mishra ‘Teni’ died after the branch of a tree fell on his motorcycle.

The mishap took place near Khambhar Kheda village in Kotwali police station area of Lakhimpur Kheri district on Wednesday night.

Police said that Achin Mishra alias Sonu (41), a resident of Banveerpur village under Tikonia police station, was the son of the elder brother of the Union minister.

Additional Superintendent of Police Arun Kumar Singh said that Achin was going to Lakhimpur in the night when the branch of a tree fell on his motorcycle during the storm.

According to police, some passersby took Achin to the hospital where doctors pronounced him dead.

A case was registered in this regard by the police and the body was sent for post-mortem.

In another incident reported from Lakhimpur Kheri, a prisoner of Pilibhit district jail died while being taken from Pilibhit to Lucknow.

Reports said that Gurmeet Singh (80), a native of Saraikhan in Pilibhit district was lodged in the district jail. Recently he was unwell and tests on May 12 showed that he had some problem in his kidney.  He was admitted to the district hospital in Pilibhit from where the doctors referred him to the KGMU hospital in Lucknow. He was being taken to Lucknow on Thursday morning but on the way his condition deteriorated in Kheri so constable Praveen Kumar, accompanying him, took him to a local hospital where the doctors pronounced him dead. The information was given to the Kotwali police after which the police took possession of the body and sent it for post-mortem.

Gurmeet Singh was serving life imprisonment in murder cases. He was convicted on August 11, 2017.