AHMEDABAD: The CID crime's investigation report on the killing of two dalit youths in Thangadh in Surendranagar district in September 2012 has negated the conspiracy theory alleged by the kin of the victims. The report was submitted by the CID crime to the Gujarat high court in July 2016, nearly four years after the killings took place.
Sources said that in negating conspiracy on the part of the police, the CID crime report mentions that the bullets which killed the two dalit youths -Mehul Rathod and Prakash Parmar - were not fired from the weapons of the four policemen named as accused in the FIR. Hence there can no personal enmity angle as claimed by the kin of the victims, the report says.
It is noteworthy that three FIRs were lodged in the Thangadh firing case which includes an FIR registered by the cops against the rioting mob and also the FIR lodged by the family members of the deceased.
According to sources, the CID crime report says that the bullets of a 9 mm calibre gun which killed the victims were actually fired from the carbine of a commando from Jamnagar who had accompanied his senior to control the clash between two communities.
"The report says that the mob, according to the statements of some Railway Protection Force personnel deployed at the nearby railway station, was highly aggressive, " said a senior police official. "Some from the mob tried to snatch the carbine from the commando and the commotion led to the firing which killed the two youths."
According to sources, the report says that the police personnel named as accused in the FIR had not gathered at the spot on their own but arrived on the written and oral directions of their seniors, which again negates the conspiracy theory as alleged by the complainants.
After the firing, the state government had asked the then secretary of the social justice and empowerment department, Sanjay Prasad, to conduct an inquiry. The report submitted by him on May 1, 2013, has not been made public yet.
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