Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) founder Abhijeet Dipke on Monday said that he spoke to two alleged victims of pellet gun fire from the July 20 parliament march, asking the police and the government to explain their injuries.
The police and the govt deny brutality, but how do they explain this? Sahil and Vikas were protesting peacefully when they were hit by pellets fired by the police,” Dipke wrote on X. The committee comprises justice (retired) R Subhash Reddy, former Supreme Court judge, as chairperson; justice (retired) Ravi Shankar Jha, former chief justice of the Punjab and Haryana high court; justice (retired) Shalinder Kaur, former Delhi high court judge; Rishi Kumar Shukla, former Central Bureau of Investigation director; and LR Bishnoi, retired director general of police, Meghalaya.
“Spoke to Sahil and Vikas, two victims of pellet-gun injuries from 20 July. Dipke said that Sahil told him that he had appeared for the Delhi Police exam in 2025, which he alleged was leaked. Police on Friday lodged a first information report (FIR) against unknown people on a complaint by Sahil, a Delhi University student with pellet injuries during the July 20 protests, after Congress leader Rahul Gandhi accompanied the 19-year-old and sat in protest outside a police station for more than six hours. The Supreme Court on Thursday constituted a five-member committee headed by its former judge R Subhash Reddy to conduct an independent inquiry into allegations of violence during the July 20 student protests while looking into far-reaching issues such as pellet gun use, mandatory uniforms for law enforcement personnel during crowd control, blanket prohibitory orders, the legality of police surveillance, and whether a BNS provision was stifling dissent.
Dipke claimed that both protesters were agitating peacefully during the CJP’s Jantar Mantar protest, when they were “hit by pellets fired by the police”.
He says there are still pellets lodged in his eye, and he has lost vision in one eye. “He is a political science student and used to work part-time to support his family of five, as his father has a disability. He is now unable to work and support his family. If this is not brutality, can the govt explain what is?” he further wrote.
