The Maharashtra state government appointed a Commission of Inquiry under Justice B.N. Srikrishna in January 1993 to investigate the two waves of rioting that struck Bombay in December 1992 and January 1993. After repeated interruptions the Commission examined 502 witnesses and 2,903 exhibits before reporting in February 1998, finding that sections of the Bombay police had shown communal bias against Muslims during the January 1993 violence and naming individual police officers and political leaders, including Shiv Sena leader Bal Thackeray, for their roles. It remains the one systematic official reconstruction of the riots and their toll.
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AuthorJustice B.N. Srikrishna, Commission of Inquiry 1 PublisherGovernment of Maharashtra 1 Publication Year URLhttps://archive.org/details/sochara.5640.reportofsrikrish0000srik 1 Assessment
Reliability TierThe state government's own official judicial inquiry, hearing 502 witnesses and examining 2,903 exhibits over five years; the primary documentary record every later account of the riots draws on, though its own text and later academic accounts both note that an unknown further number of bodies, particularly from the December 1992 phase, were never recovered or formally counted. Connections
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