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While records showed that some senior police officer had fired in the Connaught Place area to control a rampaging mob, the same was not corroborated by the daily diary maintained by the area police.
Deposing as a witness before the Nanavati Commission probing the 1984 anti-Sikh riots, Additional SHO of Connaught Place police station Anil Dureja said, "There is a record to show that ACP and DCP had resorted to firing on November 1, 1984 but there is no entry about the incident in the daily diary maintained by the police."
He, however, informed the commission about the arrangements made by the police to control the mob, which had indulged in large scale looting and arson in the area.
Dureja said the records showed that apart from the deployment of home guards, around fifty-five policemen had been maintaining round-the-clock vigil around the Connaught Place area.
Asked whether police had taken any step on receiving information that a mob was looting and burning the properties around Imperial Hotel, Dureja said according to the record police had gone to the spot but did not find the crowd.
"Police found some people moving here and there," he said adding no arrest was made from that vicinity on November 1.
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