In exceptional cases, police regulations permit use of pellet guns, says SC“Prayers are not to use pellet guns. In exceptional cases, police regulations permit the use of pellet guns. If you are interested in phasing out pellet guns, you will have to challenge that very provision as ultra vires to Article 21 (right to life),” Justice Bagchi said. Plea to ban pellet gun ‘vague’At the outset, Justice Bagchi said that the prayer for a ban on the use of pellet guns for civilian crowd dispersal was “vague” without challenging the police regulations, which permit the use of such weapons. “I am not saying pellet guns should not be in the armoury of the RAF or not.