Court directed the state government to ensure all those persons injured in the use of the weapon are provided adequate medical assistance.
\"We used pellet guns only when the situation was out of control,\" CRPF director K Durga Prasad said.
SRINAGAR: Jammu and Kashmir High Court has rejected the plea of the Kashmir Bar Council seeking ban on the use of shotgun pellets for crowd control in the state. It also refused to entertain the plea that the officers who took the decision of using pellets and those who actually fired these be prosecuted as the same has killed, maimed and blinded several hundred people during the ongoing civil unrest in the Valley.
The court, however, directed the state government to ensure all those persons injured in the use of the weapon are provided adequate medical assistance and that, if specialists are not available in the state, appropriate arrangement be made in J&K itself by inviting specialists or shifting patients to hospitals outside the state.
( Source : Deccan Chronicle. )
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