The excuse was that I said something about Amit Shah. I said that Amit Shah was responsible for the brutality that was carried out,” Rahul said. During the conference, Rahul called on Prime Minister Narendra Modi to sack Amit Shah over the alleged crackdown on student protesters and demanded an independent probe into the incident, which is being monitored by the Supreme Court. Shock batons were used, not just normal lathis, lathis with nails.” Either Amit Shah gave the order to shoot people with pellet guns, beat people with lathis with nails, and use electric batons, or he did not know it was happening.