Government of India Sanjay Gandhi The Turkman gate demolition and subsequent massacre was an infamous case of political oppression and police brutality during the Emergency when, on 31 May 1976, residents of Old Delhi were killed by police while protesting a slum clearance.

[1] An official account of the number of people killed at Turkman gate is not available and a media blackout ensued in the wake of the massacre.

[4] After the incident the police admitted to six deaths: Om Prakash, a CPI(ML) activist who led the rioting,[5] and five Muslim residents of the locality.

Officer Rajesh Sharma, who had issued the firing order to the CRPF, claimed that at least 20 people died in the shooting.

[6] Independent researchers, John Dayal and Ajoy Bose, in their book on the Emergency in Delhi, put the death toll at 12.