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Former Bombay police commissioner Ramdeo Tyagi and 17 serving policemen were charge-sheeted on Monday in connection with the Suleman Bakery police firing incident of January 9, 1993, in which nine members of a minority community were killed.
The incident occurred during the 1992-93 Bombay riots.
Tyagi, who was then the joint commissioner of police (crime), and 17 of his men were booked under section 302 (murder) and section 34 (common intention) of the Indian Penal Code on the basis of Srikrishna Commission's report on the riots.
Assistant Commissioner of Police P N Sonawane, who is attached to the special task force set up by the Maharashtra government to implement the recommendations of the Srikrishna Commission, filed the chargesheet before Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate A A Kidwai of the Mazgaon Metropolitan Court.
Tyagi, who was arrested on August 14 after his anticipatory bail plea was rejected by both the Bombay high court and the Supreme Court, is undergoing treatment at Bombay Hospital for a heart ailment.
He was not produced before the court on Monday.
The Justice B N Srikrishna Commission, which probed the riots sparked off by the demolition of Babri masjid at Ayodhya on December 6, 1992, had indicted Tyagi and 17 other policemen for their role in the Suleman Bakery firing.
Tyagi, who later became the Bombay police commissioner, retired a couple of years ago as the director general of National Security Guard, the elite force responsible VVIP security.
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