The Bihar government has informed the Supreme Court that the deployment of an AK-47 rifle to disperse student protestors in Siwan did not result in any injuries. However, the government acknowledged that such a weapon is inappropriate for managing law and order situations.
Denying that the shots fired from AK-47 resulted in injuries, the state told the court, “The injuries to protesters were neither caused by AK-47, nor the persons were located at the place where the constable fired from AK-47. The top court had on August 3 directed preservation of CCTV footage and withdrawal of cases against minors and those who had no criminal antecedents.
In an affidavit filed last week in the batch of petitions filed by students who suffered injuries on account of police brutalities in Delhi and other parts of the country following the Cockroach Janata Party’s protests over NEET-UG 2026 paper leak, the state government told the top court that shots were fired from AK-47 after the constable in question got “trapped” in the crowd. Also Read I CID raids Jharkhand Staff Selection Commission office over exam irregularities amid protest The affidavit said, “No one was injured from the bullets of AK-47,” as it detailed the incidents of July 25 when constable Abhishek Kumar, working in District Intelligence Unit, got trapped in the crowd that gathered near JP Chowk in Siwan and had to fire four rounds from his AK-47 in the air.
