Use Only Non-Lethal Methods To Tackle Civil Disturbances: Chidambaram

The Centre has asked police forces across the country to revisit the standard operating procedures in dealing with public protests and use only non-lethal methods to control civil disturbances, including stone pelting.

Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram on Thursday said the recurring challenge that security forces were facing was how to deal with civil disturbances and how much force to use to deal with them.

“The right to dissent and the right to protest are basic rights in an open society. However, we find that more often than not such protests turn violent. We saw indiscriminate stone pelting in Jammu and Kashmir in the summer of 2010,” he said addressing the conference of DGPs and IGPs here.

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