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dated September 10, 1957 : Firing on crowds

Rules in regard to police firing on crowds have been so amended that such action would result in the “least loss of life and the least injuries,” the Home Minister, Pandit Govind Ballabh Pant, said in the Lok Sabha on September 9. Pandit Pant was at first reluctant to disclose this fact but agreed to take the House into confidence in response to pressing queries by several members from the Opposition. He said, “We do not want people to be hit in such a way that their life is in danger. But we do not want to say so as, if this goes round, then people might go on defying law and order and think there will be no danger. It will not serve the cause which you (members who put the questions) and I naturally share. But the rules have been framed in such a way as to cause the least loss of life and the least injuries.”

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