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POLICE STATION KRISHNA NAGAR SHO:
SHRI S.N. BHASKAR Police
Station Krishna Nagar is located in the center of the District
and has no border with Uttar Pradeh. DEATHS The
total number of persons killed in this Police Station, as per Police records,
is sixteen whereas according to the Relief Commissioner, the figure would
be eight-six. EVENTS The
incidents of violence in the Police Station started in the morning of
1st November 1984. A number
of shops at Lal Quarters were set on fire during the day between 1200
hours to 1500 hours. The most serious incidents the burning of the house of the
owner of Swaran Cinema. The
Police version is that the owner went up to the roof of his house and
started firing at the mob. Even
if accepted to be true, this could ----- an act of self-defense.
One of the attackers is stated have been killed in the firing and
one injured. The attacked
by the mob and fire in the house must have continued for quite some time.
Even then ten people were allowed to be burnt by the Police at
a place, which is at stone’s throw from the Police Station and not far
from Head Quarters of the Deputy Commissioner of Police. With regard to the burning and looting of shops, Shri Tara
Singh (2531) and Shri Pishora Singh (2804) state how Deputy Commissioner
of Police Shri Sewa Dass, S.H.O. Shri Baskar and Sub Inspector Kapoor
took no action to control the situation and, in fact encouraged the mob
to carry on looting. Even though, in his report dated the 30th November, 1984, the then S.H.O. Shri Bhaskar has stated that there were no untoward incidents on the 2nd and 3rd November, 1984, the logs of wireless as well as the affidavits confirm that the incidents of violence continued upto 3rd November, 1984. FIR' s In
this Police station, only FIRs pertaining riots have been registered,
four (482 to 485) on 1st no one on 2nd November, 1984, even
though a large number of incidents had taken place. |
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