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CHENNAI: Calling police firing that claimed the lives of 13 people in Tuticorin on May 22 and 23 an “unjustified and unwanted” murders, the final report of the 23 members’ people inquest stated that it was a fallout of the total breakdown of civilian authority.“Police repression is continuing even today. However, Sterlite had attached the copy along with its affidavit that was submitted before the National Green Tribunal. They said advocates had managed to get a copy of the order after approaching the court. "When we met the collector and asked the order of GO, he replied that he did not have," he said and wondered how the company had got the order.The report would be submitted to the families of the victims on July 22. Everything pinpointed that the whole episode had been a pre-planned and premeditated murders,” said Tiphagne.Citing the absence of then collector and his subordinates in the scene on May 22, the report said that administration ceded all civilian authority and power to the police, contributing to the violence and deaths that occurred.The members of the team criticised judiciary for agreeing with the administration’s decision to impose Section 144 (unlawful assembly) of the CrPC..