New Delhi: Justice Sushanta Chatterjee Commission today said that the firing on protesters by Kolkata police in 1993 was unnecessary.
On July 21, 1993, police had opened firing on Indian National Congress workers in Kolkata killing 13 lives. They were demanding photo voter identity cards to be made mandatory to ensure fair elections. The protest was lead by Mamta Banerjee who is now the Chief minister of the state.
“There was no necessity for police to resort to firing,” the commission said in the report.
The commission also compared the killing with Jalianwallah Bagh massacre.
“Police firing on political movement led by Mamata Banerjee in 1993 in Kolkata worse than Jalianwallah Bagh massacre” observed the retired Justice in the report.
The Trinamool Congress, after assuming power in 2011, constituted one-man commission of Justice (retired) Sushanto Chattopadhyay, a former Chief Justice of Orissa High Court to investigate the incident.
