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Muzaffarnagar riots: Statement of DM recorded

Press Trust of India
Muzaffarnagar, 02 February: The inquiry commission probing the 2013 Muzaffarnagar riots has recorded the statement of the then District Magistrate Kaushal Raj Sharma who asserted that authorities had effectively controlled the violence.
The one-man inquiry commission of Justice (retd) Vishnu Sahai yesterday recorded the statement of Muzaffarnagar DM Kaushal Raj Sharma who asserted that district authorities had controlled the violence after taking steps to instill confidence in the people in the riot-hit district.
The commission has also summoned the then DGP Deoraj Nagar and the then state Home Secretary R N Srivastava on 5 February for recording their statements.