A departmental inquiry later found the allegations to be true and that the officer neither took any step nor informed his superiors, which might have aggravated the situation and led to the incident.
Two persons were shot dead and another seriously injured after Agarwal, who runs a Montessori school at the disputed site, and a security guard allegedly fired on a group of people belonging to a rival claimant, who appeared with their lawyer to take possession of the property in the wee hours of November 11.