New Delhi, July 23 -- Shaikh Irshad Mansuri, injured during the protest at Jantar Mantar, has said that he was hit by 'multiple pellets' fired by an 'RAF' man.

Irshad, 25, is undergoing treatment at Lady Hardinge Hospital in Delhi, days after he was among hundreds of protesters who were injured during the Cockroach Janta Party's (CJP) march to the Parliament on 20 July.

The Rapid Action Force, a wing of the CRPF, was on duty that day alongside the Delhi Police during the march, which saw several confrontations break out between protesters and the police in central Delhi.

Irshad, an MBA graduate working in Gurgaon, told Indian Express in an interview from the hospital that he was walking with other protesters near Jantar Mantar when sec...