FIR against former police chief

MUMBAI, MAY 26. The Special Task Force (STF) appointed by the Democratic Front Government has registered an FIR against the former city police commissioner, Mr. R.D. Tyagi, and 16 others in connection with the police firing at Suleman Bakery that had claimed nine lives in 1993, police said here today.

The FIR was filed against Mr. Tyagi and others under Section 302 of the Indian Penal Code and allied sections last evening. The DF Government constituted the STF with Mr. K.P. Raghuvanshi as its chief for the implementation of Sri Krishna Commission report which was earlier rejected by the Sena-BJP alliance Government. The Commission report mentioned the Suleman Bakery incident.

According to the report, Mr. Tyagi, who was the then Joint Commissioner of Police (Crime) and heading a special operations squad, had claimed that he ordered the firing in self- defence since those inside the bakery were armed with sophisticated weapons including AK-47.

The Sri Krishna Commission which had probed the communal riots of 1992-93 and the subsequent serial bomb blasts of March 1993 in the aftermath of demolition of the Babri Masjid in Ayodhya, had indicted the Shiv Sena chief, Mr. Bal Thackeray, among others.

- PTI

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