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Authorities concede that Kashmir is the main spot where the pump-activity shotguns have been utilized for group control. 

Faces deformed by pellets and blinded youths could be the enduring picture from Kashmir Valley's disordered summer of 2016. In any case, the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF), which has seen a curiously high number of wounds in its positions as it fought swarms organizing disturbance in the course of recent days, says for the time being there is no solid contrasting option to the "pellet" weapons, known as 'pump-activity firearms' in resistance speech. 

Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh guaranteed Parliament recently that the administration would investigate the utilization of these weapons, which brought about broad wounds to individuals, including a youngster as youthful as 12. 

Be that as it may, the CRPF, which is conveyed to control the distress alongside the Jammu and Kashmir police, says starting now they don't have any contrasting option to these firearms. 

"On the off chance that we respond, as a few birds of prey need us to do, then there would be more setbacks. There is nothing called a non-deadly weapon, even a cellular telephone can be utilized as a weapon to assault somebody and it would be lethal for that individual. Starting today, 1,022 CRPF jawans are harmed in stone-pelting occurrences, upwards of 956 of them in 10 days alone when the distress was at its top," said K. Durga Prasad, Director General (DG), CRPF.An official clarified that pump-activity firearms were presented in the Valley in August 2010 after a fomentation around the same time in which 110 individuals were killed in police firing.The CRPF has 600 of these weapons, which are made by the Ordnance Factory Board (OFB) in Ishapore, West Bengal. 

"We utilize some in Left Wing Extremism ranges, yet lion's share of these weapons are being used in the Kashmir Valley. Pellet firearms are the final resort, when the various alternatives like gas shells and gas projectiles fizzle," the authority said. 

In any case, for the record, authorities concede that Kashmir is the main spot where the pump-activity shotguns have been utilized for group control. A senior authority said the Valley has seen exceptional challenges subsequent to the executing of Hizbul Mujahideen leader Burhan Wani in an experience on July 8."We quit utilizing sort [number] 4 and 5 pellets [lead shots] since the previous more than two years as they were observed to be to a great degree deadly. We changed to utilizing sort 8 and 9 pellets. The higher the number, the less deadly the pellet would be," said the authority. The authority additionally clarified that the shells are loaded with shrapnel and, when shot, they go in various bearings. 

"We have requested that our jawans point low with the goal that when let go, it just hits the lower part of the body. We must realize that numerous individuals have lost their vision because of pellet wounds and we are investigating these reports. Starting now, we don't have a contrasting option to pellet weapons," said Mr. Prasad. 

Indeed, DGP K. Rajendra Kumar had said a year ago that as "pellet firearms, a non-deadly weapon, are bringing on wounds", they were searching for an option that "would be less destructive furthermore help our men to scatter the nonconformists." However, after a year this is yet to happen.