7月20日，数万名蟑螂人党支持者在印度首都德里举行抗议活动，要求教育改革和教育部长辞职[1]。警察和准军事部队用木棒、警棍和催泪瓦斯攻击人群[1]。根据官方数据，60名抗议者和118名警务人员在冲突中受伤，但蟑螂人党声称实际伤亡人数更多[1]。
独立弹道专家对多名受伤抗议者进行检验后，确认他们的伤口与散弹枪射击一致[1]。英国弹道取证科学家菲利普·博伊斯表示："这些伤口肯定是由散弹枪造成的"，武器为"12口径泵动式霰弹枪"[1]。ARES主任詹森-琼斯指出，散弹枪"在距离至少50英尺处可能仍然造成毁灭性伤害"[1]。
多名抗议者伤情严重[1]。28岁记者莫希特的右肘有26处散弹伤口、右上背4处伤口[1]。谢赫·伊尔沙德·曼苏里体内超过40发散弹，包括颈部、左眼肌肉下和鼻子下方各有1发[1]。19岁学生萨希尔·洛查布面部一侧和右臂背部布满伤洞，可能失去一只眼睛[1]。印度媒体报道称，散弹由隶属中央预备警察部队的快速行动部队发射[1]。
不过，政府官员吉滕德拉·辛格在议会声称只使用了催泪瓦斯，没有射击"子弹"，但未就散弹枪使用情况置评[1]。印度政府和警方一直未正式承认使用了散弹枪[1]。
Tens of thousands of supporters of India's Cockroach Party gathered in central Delhi on July 20 to protest against education policies and demand the resignation of the education minister.[1] Police and paramilitary forces responded with batons, canes, and tear gas against the demonstrators.[1] According to official figures, 60 protesters and 118 police personnel were injured, though the party claimed the actual number of injured was higher.[1]
Independent ballistics experts have since examined injured protesters and determined that their wounds are consistent with pellet-gun fire.[1] British forensic ballistics scientist Philip Boyce stated that "these wounds are definitively caused by pellet guns," identifying the weapons as "12-gauge pump-action shotguns."[1] NR Jenzen-Jones, director of ARES, noted that pellet guns "can still cause devastating injuries at distances of at least 50 feet."[1] Indian media reports attributed the pellet fire to the Rapid Action Force, a unit of the Central Reserve Police Force.[1]
The injuries documented on individual protesters support these expert assessments. Mohit, a 28-year-old journalist, sustained 26 pellet wounds to his right elbow and four additional wounds to his upper right back.[1] Shaikh Irshad Mansoori was struck by over 40 pellets embedded in his body, including single strikes to his neck, below his left eye muscle, and beneath his nose.[1] Sahil Lochab, a 19-year-old student, suffered extensive wounds across one side of his face and the back of his right arm, risking permanent eye damage.[1] Despite these injuries, the Indian government has not formally acknowledged the use of pellet guns; government official Jitendra Singh told parliament that only tear gas was deployed and denied firing "bullets," without specifically addressing shotgun use.[1]