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Rahul Gandhi protest secures FIR over pellet gun injury to student
Rahul Gandhi staged a dharna outside Parliament Street police station in New Delhi on Friday, demanding an FIR over the alleged use of pellet guns against student protester Sahil Lochab. The protest…
Rahul Gandhi staged a dharna outside Parliament Street police station in New Delhi on Friday, demanding an FIR over the alleged use of pellet guns against student protester Sahil Lochab. The protest lasted nearly seven hours and ended after Delhi Police registered a case over the injuries suffered by the 19-year-old. Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra also joined, along with senior party leaders including Jairam Ramesh and Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury.
Sahil had approached police with a complaint that pellets injured him during a student protest at Jantar Mantar on July 20, part of a Parliament march by the Cockroach Janta Party demanding the resignation of Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan over NEET exam irregularities. Congress alleged police had not provided an investigating officer's number or acknowledged the complaint despite follow-ups since August 14.
During the protest, Rahul displayed a box of pellets and said more than 200 were lodged in Sahil's body, with three in his eye causing vision loss and some near his heart. The FIR was registered under Section 118(1) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita for voluntarily causing hurt with dangerous weapons, against unknown persons, and assigned to an investigating officer at Parliament Street police station.
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The case highlights the longstanding controversy over pellet guns, which have been used by security forces for crowd control in Jammu and Kashmir and elsewhere, causing severe injuries including blindness. The Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita provision invoked here, Section 118(1), covers hurt caused by dangerous weapons and carries a potential prison term of up to life. The key next step will be whether the investigating officer identifies the personnel who allegedly fired the pellets and whether the Delhi Police or Home Ministry allows prosecution. Watch for the charge sheet filing within 90 days, the statutory limit for completing investigation in such cases.
Source: thenewsminute.com
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