New Delhi, July 30 -- The medico-legal case (MLC) report of 25-year-old Sheikh Irshad Mansoori - one of the petitioners in the Supreme Court alleging the use of pellet guns during the July 20 protest - said multiple "metallic foreign" bodies were retrieved from his body during surgery, HT has learnt.

The MLC - issued by the department of otolaryngology and head and neck surgery at Lady Hardinge Medical College (LHMC), dated July 24 and seen by HT - said that "the patient underwent surgery for foreign body retrieval under GA [general anesthesia] on 21/07/2026."

Under diagnosis, it said, "Foreign body impaction in multiple sites of head and neck."

Under "ENT Operation Theater (OT) notes", it said, "Metallic foreign body retrieved (size a...