Congress leader stages protest at Delhi police station over delayed FIR in student pellet injury case
Congress politician Rahul Gandhi conducted a dharna (sit-in protest) outside the Delhi Police's Parliament Street station on August 21, 2026, alleging police refused to file an FIR following complaints from a student who sustained pellet gun injuries during a 'Sansad Chalo' march. The source reports Gandhi characterized the police response as a failure to register the complaint despite evidence of injury.
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✓ Verified
- ✓Rahul Gandhi conducted a dharna outside Parliament Street police station in New Delhi on August 21, 2026. (ThePrint)
- ✓The protest concerns a student who sustained pellet gun injuries during 'Sansad Chalo' march. (ThePrint)
- ✓Gandhi alleged police refused to file an FIR on the student's complaint. (ThePrint)
- ✓28 mainstream media articles have covered this incident. (MSM corroboration metric)
~ Interpretation
- ~Gandhi characterized the police refusal to file an FIR as institutional failure. (Source framing, not independently verified as policy violation)
- ~The protest was intended to pressure police into formal complaint registration. (Implied by dharna action, source motivation)
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