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In (L’Enseignement Math 61(2):151–159, 2015) Nica presented an elementary proof of a result which says that the relative elementary linear group with respect to square of an ideal of a ring is a subset of the true relative elementary linear group. The original result was proved by Tits (C R Acad Sci Paris Ser A 283:693–695, 1976) in the much general context of Chevalley groups. In this paper we prove analogues of this result of Tits for transvection groups. We also obtain an elementary proof of a special case of Tits’s result, namely the case of elementary symplectic group, using commutator identities for generators of this group.