Tear gas

5 Jun 2011

In power

INC — Delhi Police

Acted

Police, Delhi

Police, CRPF and Rapid Action Force personnel reached the ground at about 12:30 am, when most of the crowd was asleep, and went to the dais at about 1:10 am; Ramdev left the stage for the crowd at 1:25 am. Police and members of the crowd threw bricks, and police fired tear gas shells. The police said they first used water cannon; the court found that the only water cannon available was at the VIP gate and that footage and photographs did not show it in use. The court found from CCTV footage that tear gas was fired at about 2:20 am, and its narrative records that by about 2:10 am almost all supporters had been driven out towards New Delhi Railway Station. [1]

• 8 tear gas shells fired, said Delhi Police (as recorded by the Supreme Court) [1]
• about 5,000 police and paramilitary personnel at the ground, said Amicus curiae (as recorded by the Supreme Court) [1]
• about 1,200 police and paramilitary personnel at the ground, said Supreme Court (from the record) [1]
• over 20,000 people at Ramlila ground on the night of 4/5 June, said Delhi Police (as stated by the Home Minister) [2]
• 15,000 to 20,000 people in the tent at the time of the police action, said Conceded position before the Supreme Court [1]

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