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July 20 protest: RAF used tear gas, anti-riot guns and plastic pellets

Police record says RAF fired plastic pellets during July 20 NEET protestNEW DELHI: Rapid Action Force personnel fired two rounds of non-lethal plastic pellets, along with tear smoke grenades and several other crowd-control munitions, during CJP's July 20 'Sansad Chalo' march over the NEET-UG paper leak, news agency PTI reported citing official records.The disclosure comes days after Delhi Police described allegations that pellets had been used against "peaceful protestors" as "completely false and misleading".According to officials, the details of the RAF action were entered in the general diary of Parliament Street police station on July 22, based on information provided by a deputy commandant of the force.The RAF unit was deployed in Zone 1 of the Jantar Mantar area alongside a Delhi Pol
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