SYED AMJAD SHAH
Jammu, Aug 12: After the much hyped pepper gun was not able to yield desirable results to control the protesters in Kashmir valley during the current spate of violence, the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) has handed over these guns to the Jammu and Kashmir Police for its trial use.
Official sources told Greater Kashmir that the CRPF troopers used the pepper-guns at several places in Kashmir to disperse the stone palters, but the weapon failed to prove effective in quelling the agitating mob.
“The pepper guns did not yield desirable results against the stone palters or demonstrators in the state,” official sources said.
They said that the shots of pepper guns were successful and yield results in the countries where the demonstrators or protestors have "sensitive skin" while it failed to work on the skin of Kashmiri people as they are "tough people".
Sources said that the pepper guns emit super-irritant to disperse the protesters without causing them fatal injury. The central force CRPF used the weapon against the demonstrators in different parts of valley but results were not much encouraging.
After failing on the ground, the CRPF finally decided to hand over the non-lethal weapon to the JK police for its long field trial.
“We have handed over the task to use pepper guns on the protesters in Kashmir valley to JK police ten days back for its field trial,” Special Director General (CRPF) N K Tripathi told Greater Kashmir.
The Special DG (CRPF) said that: “Near about 12 pepper guns have been handed over to the police and we will seek a report from them (police) concerning its results after a month.”
While refuting the reports that the non-lethal gun (pepper gun) has failed to yield results in valley on the protesters, Tripathi said that, “It cannot be said that the weapon has failed in valley. But it will take some time that is why we have handed over the weapon to police for its long field trial.
He said that police is much capable to carry out its trial on the demonstrators in valley as they comparatively are in close contact with the public then CRPF, as the central force is called in, to help the local police, only when the situation turns worse.
CRPF received Pepper guns from Defence Research and Development Organization (DRDO) in the first week of July for a trial when there were large scale protests throughout the valley.
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