India suspends policeman for firing AK-47 at student protesters

Senior Bihar police official Nilesh Kumar said no one was wounded and that a constable, part of an intelligence unit “which deals with dreaded, hard-core criminals”, had been issued the assault rifle.

Indian authorities have ​suspended a policeman for firing rounds in the air from an assault rifle to disperse student protesters ‌in an eastern state over the weekend, the latest flashpoint in a wave of youth protests that forced the federal education minister to resign.