{"id":23791,"date":"2026-07-28T09:29:47","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T09:29:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/indian-police-officer-suspended-for-opening-fire-during-protest\/"},"modified":"2026-07-28T09:29:47","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T09:29:47","slug":"indian-police-officer-suspended-for-opening-fire-during-protest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/indian-police-officer-suspended-for-opening-fire-during-protest\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian police officer suspended for opening fire during protest"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><video src=\"https:\/\/videous.cgtn.com\/news\/2026-07-28\/Indian-police-officer-suspended-for-opening-fire-during-protest-1P8aX18xWgw\/video\/wu_1juiaaf181up8pbd1fij16g1ec7c\/wu_1juiaaf181up8pbd1fij16g1ec7c.m3u8\" poster=\"https:\/\/videous.cgtn.com\/news\/2026-07-28\/Indian-police-officer-suspended-for-opening-fire-during-protest-1P8aX18xWgw\/video\/wu_1juiaaf181up8pbd1fij16g1ec7c\/wu_1juiaaf181up8pbd1fij16g1ec7c.jpg\"><\/video>\n<p>Indian authorities suspended a policeman for firing bullets in the air from his AK-47 assault rifle over the weekend. The police officer allegedly fired to break up a group of protesters who were marching toward parliament in the capital, New Delhi, on July 20.<\/p>\n<p>The demonstrations stem from a leaked question sheet for a national medical college entrance exam that happened in May. More than 2 million people took the exam and had to re take a new version of the test after the scandal was revealed, which sparked outrage among the test-takers.<\/p>\n<p>This latest development comes just days after the Indian Education Minister resigned over the leak, with protesters reporting being attacked with canes and tear gas by authorities.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><i><strong>For more, check out our exclusive content on <\/strong><\/i><i><strong>CGTN Now<\/strong><\/i><i><strong> and subscribe to our weekly newsletter, <\/strong><\/i><i><strong>The China Report<\/strong><\/i><i><strong>.<\/strong><\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><sub>Indian police officer suspended for opening fire during protest<\/sub><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indian authorities suspended a policeman for firing bullets in the air from his AK-47 assault rifle over the weekend. The police officer allegedly fired to break up a group of protesters who were marching toward parliament in the capital, New Delhi, on July 20. The demonstrations stem from a leaked question sheet for a national&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/indian-police-officer-suspended-for-opening-fire-during-protest\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Indian police officer suspended for opening fire during protest&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23791\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}