Divisional commissioner Aunjaneya Singh on Monday said that the autopsy reports of those killed in Sunday’s clashes in Sambhal suggest that the victims died by bullets fired from countrymade pistols, report Kanwardeep Singh and Asif Ansari.
“The cause of death in most cases was firearm injury possibly caused by 315 bore bullets. Such bullets are fired using countrymade pistols, and the bullet wounds suggest that the bullets were shot from a very near location.Police personnel were mainly using pellet guns to disperse the crowd. Whether these people were killed by the bullets shot by another group of protesters is a matter of investigation,” Singh said. The divisional commissioner added, “We have recovered videos in which a few masked men among the rioters were pelting stones. The deceased were shot from a very close distance while the police teams were far away from them. All these things are part of the investigation. A magisterial enquiry has also been ordered.”
