Henri Tiphagne, executive director, People’s Watch, said the state government must take steps to get permission from the HC for further investigation by a special investigation team, on the basis of evidence in Aruna Jegadeesan’s report as per Section 173(8) of Criminal Procedure Code. "The 17 police officers and four revenue officials named in the report must be placed under suspension immediately until they are prosecuted," he said. While the CBI held rioters responsible for violence, the Jegadeesan committee report held the police guilty of killing civilian protesters. 

The report submitted by the Justice Aruna Jagadeesan Committee on Thoothukudi firing called for action against 17 police officers.

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Henri Tiphagne, executive director of human rights organisation People’s Watch, said that action against those responsible for the firing was a major assurance in the election manifesto of the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam.

Anti-Sterlite activists on Friday demanded that the Tamil Nadu government convene the Assembly to discuss the contents of the Justice (retired) Aruna Jegadeesan Commission, which according to reports, has pinned the blame on the police for the May 22, 2018, firing on protesters in Thoothukudi that killed 13 civilians.