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The FIR was filed on Friday evening against Tyagi and others under Section 302 of the Indian Penal Code and allied sections, police sources said.
The Democratic Front government constituted the STF with K P Raghuvanshi as its chief for the implementation of Srikrishna Commission report, which was earlier rejected by the Sena-Bharatiya Janata Party alliance government.
According to the report, Tyagi, who was the then Joint Commissioner of Police (Crime) and heading a special operation squad, had claimed that he ordered the firing in self defence since those inside the bakery were armed with sophisticated weapons, including AK-47s.
The Srikrishna Commission, which probed the communal riots of 1992-93 and the subsequent serial bomb blasts of March 1993 in the aftermath of the demolition of the Babri masjid in Ayodhya, had indicted Shiv Sena supremo Bal Thackeray among others.
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