Scam record · 2026 · Policy harm
CJP Delhi: tear gas, nails, stones, assault on women
July 2026 CJP crackdown: verified tear gas and lathi injuries in hospitals. Viral and CJP clips allege a munition ripping a palm, nail-studded lathis, police throwing stones, staging vehicle damage, and two policemen hitting women on the hips and private area above the thighs on purpose while laughing. Police deny several assault claims and blame protesters for stones and vandalism.
Call it what it looks like on camera when a shell detonates in a hand: a blast that tears flesh. Crowd-control munitions are not party poppers.
Verified public record: BBC, Hindu, and Print reported tear gas, lathi-charges, and hospital intakes for head, eye, fracture, and tear-gas injuries after the 20 July Parliament-march crackdown. Delhi Police deny disproportionate force and cite protester stone-throwing and damaged buses in places.
Viral layer 1: clips of a shell blasting a palm; expired tear-gas stock claims. Allegation until a named hospital case IDs the victim and munition.
Viral layer 2: protesters and MPs allege lathis with nails / spikes; one circulating hospital account shows puncture marks on chest, face, and hands. AAP MP Sanjay Singh alleged nails in batons in public remarks. Delhi Police called nail-fitted lathi videos false and 'not related' to that day's protest, and say they are scanning 250+ videos. Both sides are logged. A nail-studded stick used on students would be torture-grade force, not lawful crowd control.
Viral layer 3: CJP shared videos claiming police in blue uniforms threw stones at protesters after the lathi-charge. Mathrubhumi and LiveMint reported those party clips. Delhi Police say stones came from the crowd and that security vehicles had windshields smashed. Separate viral clips allege officers broke their own police-car windows to frame CJP for vandalism. That staging claim stays allegation until a named outlet freezes faces and vehicle numbers. If true, it is fabrication of evidence. If false, sharing it as finished fact helps the other side. Log both, demand the full clip.
Viral layer 4: citizen video alleges two policemen deliberately baton-struck young women on the hips and private area above the thighs while laughing with other officers. That is not accidental crowd control. It is sexualised assault under colour of duty. On the wider women-violence record: CJP alleged hair-pulling and assault on Gitanjali Angmo and beating of teenage girls; TOI carried 'women were beaten like animals' eyewitness lines. Delhi Police called Angmo / minor-assault posts false and denied targeted personal assault. Keep the clip as allegation until faces, time, and place are locked by a named newsroom or an MLC / NCW complaint. Survivors: same-day hospital MLC, unedited video, women police station / NCW / NHRC, lawyer. Do not shame victims' faces in shares without consent.
Is this legal? Short answer: not as a free pass. Police may use graduated force when an assembly turns violent or is unlawful under notified orders. Supreme Court law (Anita Thakur; Ramlila Maidan) says peaceful assemblies do not warrant force, and even against violent crowds force must be reasonable, stop when the threat stops, and not become barbaric. Maiming munitions, spiked sticks, staging crime scenes, or sexualised baton blows against women invite Articles 21 and 19 challenges and, case by case, criminal sexual offence law. 'Riot control' is not a licence to torture kids or assault women.
What citizens can do: save unedited video with timestamp, hospital / MLC papers if you are injured, RTI for munition and baton inventory, NHRC / NCW / police complaint, peaceful documentation. See stay-safe before you escalate.
What is proven here
Proof level: tear gas + mass injuries = verified news record. Palm-blast, nail-lathi, police stone-throwing (CJP videos), staged vehicle damage, and deliberate hips / private-area baton blows while laughing = disputed / allegation. Police deny several assault claims and blame protesters for stones and vandalism. Not a finished criminal conviction of named officers. Keep labels visible when sharing.
Sources
- The Hindu: CJP crackdown, hospital injuries (News + docs)
- BBC: tear gas and injured protesters (News + docs)
- The Print: tear gas / Patel Chowk force (News + docs)
- IBTimes: police say nail-fitted lathi videos fake (News + docs)
- NewsMill: Sanjay Singh alleges nails in batons (News + docs)
- Mathrubhumi: CJP videos allege police threw stones (News + docs)
- LiveMint: CJP claims police stone pelting (News + docs)
- India Today: police say buses attacked / personnel hurt (News + docs)
- TOI: women 'beaten like animals' after lathi-charge (News + docs)
- The Print / PTI: CJP alleges assault on Angmo; police deny (News + docs)
- ABP: police reject viral assault claims on woman / child (News + docs)
- Trishola trending: CJP live timeline (Document)