Opposition leader Rahul Gandhi wrote to Union Home Minister Amit Shah asking whether lethal force was sanctioned against student protesters during the July 20 Parliament march, framing the CRPF/RAF's use of pellet guns as an escalation requiring political accountability and raising doubts about the legal basis for deployment.

The protesting students (organised under the Cockroach Janta Party) and petitioning victims contend that CRPF/RAF fired pellet and plastic-pellet rounds on police orders during the 'Sansad Chalo' / 'Chalo Sansad' march, causing serious injuries—including a 19-year-old at risk of vision loss—and are seeking a Supreme Court ban on pellet guns plus compensation. Their narrative centres on disproportionate force and the underlying demand that Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan resign over the NEET-UG paper leak.

Official accounts, surfaced through general diary records and a CRPF internal inquiry, confirm that RAF personnel were issued plastic pellet rounds and fired on a Deputy Commissioner's orders at Jantar Mantar during the July 20 protest, contradicted by earlier Delhi Police denials; the CRPF is now conducting an internal post-event assessment. Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan has resigned amid the protests, though it is unclear from the articles whether this was a consequence of the protest or the paper-leak issue.

Across outlets, neutral coverage documents injuries to dozens of protesters and police personnel, hospitals' treatment of casualties, the legal-question framing around permissible use of pellet guns, the Supreme Court petition filed by a former IPS officer and two victims, and the sequence of denial → diary-record revelation → internal probe. This group aggregates the factual through-line rather than a distinct actor narrative.