Blindness, paralysis, PTSD: Pellets can cause irreversible damage, experts say amid uproar over CJP protest crackdown

Pellet gun injuries can cause irreversible damage including blindness, nerve damage, and permanent disability, per medical experts.

An injured protester from the July 20 CJP march may lose vision in his eye; his family said doctors told them pellets recovered were metal.

Rapid Action Force (RAF) allegedly used pellet ammunition to disperse students protesting the NEET paper leak in Delhi.

Central government denied pellet gun use; RAF said it fired non-lethal munitions including plastic pellets; Delhi Police said only tear gas was used.

Doctors state injury severity depends on pellet location, size, impact velocity, and anatomical structures hit, not just number of pellets.