Firing

Sep 1990

In power

Janata Dal — Odisha, Bihar, Delhi Police

Acted

Police, Odisha, Bihar, Delhi

Police fired on protesters in several states. By 10 October the Christian Science Monitor reported 40 deaths in police shootings connected with the demonstrations. India Today reported that six people were killed in police firing in Orissa, and Manushi reported three deaths in police firing in Bihar. Accounts of police conduct in Delhi differ: the video magazine Newstrack presented the police firing at Laxmibai Nagar as brutality, while Madhu Kishwar, reviewing that coverage in Manushi, wrote that the police had been mostly on the defensive and fired after days of stone-throwing. [1][2][3][4]

• 40 killed in police shootings connected with the demonstrations, said The Christian Science Monitor [1]
• 6 killed in police firing in Orissa, said India Today [2]
• 3 killed in police firing in Bihar, said Manushi (Harsh Sethi) [3]

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