Koregaon Bhima Commission of Inquiry hearings: IPS officer deposes before panel; some lawyers seek more time to examine videos of violence
🔴 The two-member commission is investigating the factors that led to the violence, in which one person died and several others were injured. Satpute's chief examination was recorded by commission's lawyer Aashish Satpute.
As per her affidavit submitted before the commission, Satpute was also witness to the incidents of violence reported in the area on January 1. Advocate Channe questioned Satpute about the bandobast preparations.
IPS officer Tejaswi Satpute, the superintendent of Solapur Rural Police, deposed as a witness before the Koregaon Bhima Commission of Inquiry on Wednesday. On, January 1, 2018, when violence broke out in Koregaon Bhima, she was the additional SP (Pune division) of Pune Rural Police.
The two-member commission is investigating the factors that led to the violence, in which one person died and several others were injured.
Satpute’s chief examination was recorded by commission’s lawyer Aashish Satpute.
Advocate Kiran Channe, representing Dalit political activist Ravindra Chandane, conducted Satpute’s cross-examination. Satpute said Koregaon Bhima was not under her jurisdiction, but as per the orders of the then SP of Pune Rural Police on December 28, 2017, she was deployed at Koregaon Bhima “for making bandobast for regulating traffic.”
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