SRINAGAR: The State High Court today rapped the Centre on use of pellet guns by paramilitary forces and asked it to explain why the injuries suffered by people are above the knees — mostly in eyes — despite claims of having trained law-enforcing agencies.
“You are discharging the duty of controlling a mob, the crowd, but in a civilised society how you control a mob, because they are your own people, they are not aliens, they have not descended from outer space with their own pellets throwing on you. Treat them as your own people.
“You are not treating them as your own people,” a division bench of the court observed here while hearing a PIL.
The bench, comprising Chief Justice N Paul Vasanthakumar and Justice Muzaffar Hussain Attar, said the Government claims CRPF personnel were trained to handle the pellet guns but it did not explain how the people were suffering injuries above their knees and mostly in their eyes then.
“You are not explaining how the injuries are suffered above knee, mostly the eyes are damaged. You are not explaining that. (AGENCIES)
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