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RAF diary entry shows Delhi Police authorised pellet gun use on July 20
A Parliament Street police station general diary entry is reported to record Rapid Action Force pellet-firing on July 22 after alleged pellet impacts during the July 20 march to Parliament.
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Samachar Pathshala Desk
Published 29 Jul 2026 · 2 min
Key takeaways
- RAF is an anti-riot unit of India’s Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF), used for crowd-control during unrest.
- Delhi Police is described as directing the RAF during the July 20 march, through orders from a Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP)-rank officer.
- A police station general diary is an internal record of events and actions taken by police during a period; Parliament Street police station recorded a RAF-related entry.
- RAF Inspector-General instructions reportedly asked that certain weapons not be issued or used for Delhi deployment until further orders.
What happened (reported diary entry and weapon details)
A Parliament Street police station general diary entry is reported to record Rapid Action Force (RAF) pellet-firing using an anti-riot gun during the period connected to the July 20 march to Parliament.
Reported details attributed to the general diary entry include the following:
The UPSC angle
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Command accountability, record-keeping, and constitutional scrutiny in crowd-control weapon use
UPSC may frame this episode as a governance question: how police command directions, weapon issuance rules, and internal RAF review mechanisms should be documented and corrected, and how allegations of severe injury can trigger Supreme Court scrutiny over weapon categories.