HYDERABAD : Over 90 per cent of the bullet injuries received by people during the recent riots in the Old City were due to shots fired from weapons of police personnel, said director of Andhra Pradesh Forensic Science Laboratory (APFSL) K P C Gandhi on Wednesday.

Investigations on the injuries of the dead as well as the injured were undertaken by APFSL scientists, he said at a seminar on forensic sciences organised by the Hyderabad chapter of the Indian Science Congress.

The statement by the Forensic Science Laboratory director confirms a statement by FSL sources earlier that they found samples of ammunition used in selfloading rifles, .38 mm and 9 mm weapons which are meant to be used only by police and defence personnel.

However, this by itself is not a guarantee that all bullets came from service weapons, an official said. All that the Forensic Science Laboratory has established so far is that the wounds received by people came from weapons of the calibre of .38 mm and 9 mm ammunition that are used by the police and other security forces.

And since many such weapons with the exception of self-loading rifles are also in the possession of criminals, one cannot say that every bullet injury suffered during the riots came from shots fired by service personnel, the official explained.

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