... The main findings of a 12-member investigative  team appointed by Tamil Nadu-Pondicherry branch of the PUCL:

"A traffic constable, Shri Selvaraj, was killed by three Muslim young men. The killing was condemned by Muslim leaders of the area. The constable had become an innocent victim of religious fanaticism that is being whipped up by the Sangh Parivar and the frenzied reaction by a few Muslim organisations. Palpable anti-Muslim mindset of a section of the police force is quite evident. To claim that the events that followed were solely due to the death of the constable is false. Factors such as presence of several communalised police officers, insensitive exploitation by Hindu fundamentalist forces, trade rivalries, funding by some north India businessmen contributed to cold-blooded and inhuman massacres of innocent Muslims and pre-meditated destruction of the economic self-reliance and enterprises of the Muslims. The events expose the nexus between some of the local police and the Hindu fundamentalist force. That the Sangh Parivar cadres/sympathisers are fast becoming lumpenised and barbaric is clearly evident from the ghastly events that took place in the hospital grounds and premises. Two dargahs which are visited more by Hindus than Muslims were mindlessly attacked by lumpenised Hindu fundamentalist forces. The torching to death of innocent Muslims who bought critically injured Muslims to the hospital, ways adopted to identify and then stab/ batter/torch them to death, chanting Jai Kali and Om Kali shows the savagery, to say the least. The manner in which the police indulged in senseless killings would shame even hardened criminals. They reached the peak of arbitrarily shooting down people for the only reason that they belonged to a particular community. A new method of using the Dalits as perpetrators of loot, carnage and attack on the Muslims has been adopted by the police and the Sangh Parivar. This is an insidious attempt not only to use Dalits as a shield or as soldiers in their 'holy war purge' against Muslims but also to dub the Dalits as criminals when the need arises. If left unchecked, this can lead to the butalisation of the psyche of the Dalits and criminalisation of one section of the society."                                                 (Source: The Mainstream, 27 June, 1998)