3 min learnNew DelhiUp to date: Aug 18, 2026 01:43 PM IST
The Bihar Police has advised the Supreme Courtroom {that a} constable working within the District Intelligence Unit (DIU) “had fired…4 rounds from his AK-47 within the air” after he “received trapped within the crowd” of protesters that had hit the streets in Siwan on July 25, following the bandh name by varied events because the ‘Jantar Mantar’ protests within the state turned violent, however nobody was injured.
In a counter affidavit filed within the high courtroom, ADGP (Regulation and Order) Ok Suhita Anupam stated that “in Siwan, on 25.07.2026, protestors of AISA and RYA (scholar and youth wing of CPI(ML)) gathered at Gandhi Maidan and started marching in direction of JP Chowk. At round 12:30 pm, protestors began pelting stones on the police pressure. The hooligans from Mairwa Highway and Gopalganj Highway joined the stone pelters. Within the stone pelting, 20 police personnel together with Superintendent of Police Siwan, 2 Sub-Divisional Police Officers, 2 Inspectors, 2 Sub-Inspectors, 13 Constables received injured. Within the violence, two police autos and numerous visitors trollies had been broken. Water cannon and tear gasoline shells had been used to regulate the legislation and order state of affairs. For the incidents, 6 FIRs had been registered in opposition to 82 individuals, out of which 17 individuals had been arrested”.
The affidavit filed on August 11 added that “because the deployed pressure was insufficient, all of the officers and personnel working in several sections and features had been known as to complement the police pressure. Close to JP Chowk, Constable…working within the District Intelligence Unit (DIU), received trapped within the crowd and fired 4 rounds from his AK-47 within the air. Nobody was injured”.
It additional stated that in Hathi Chowk, about 1.5-2 km from JP Chowk, one other assistant sub-inspector fired 2 rounds from his 9mm pistol to disperse the mob. Two fired cartridges of .315 bore and 1 fired cartridge of seven.65 mm had been recovered from the place of incident.
“Three protestors suffered minor firearms accidents” and so they “got very best therapy in Sadar Hospital, Siwan, and had been instantly shifted to Medanta Hospital in Patna for finest therapy. All of the injured individuals had been launched after their accidents healed,” the affidavit learn. The State Police stated that “the accidents to protestors had been neither attributable to AK-47, nor the individuals had been situated on the place the place the constable fired from AK-47. Ballistic examination is being carried out to establish the kind of weapon, distance of fireside, angle of fireside and many others”.
It added that the constable who fired the AK-47 “has been put underneath suspension for undesired conduct and departmental proceedings…has been initiated in opposition to him”. The State identified that “as AK-47 is a platoon-level weapon, it’s for use in particular operations, not in legislation and order conditions”. An in depth instruction concerning “use of AK 47 has been issued by the Director Common of Police” on August 1 and added that “related orders have been issued at earlier events as effectively”.
