Bhut Jolokia: Assam Police Arm Themselves With World's Hottest Pepper

Assam Police have armed themselves with chilli grenades made from ‘bhoot jolokia’, world’s hottest chilli pepper to tackle unruly mobs. Developed by India’s Defence research agency DRDO, a potent explosion of bhoot jolokia laden chilli grenade would effectively disperse angry mobs, reports say. Said to be a 1000 times stronger than avg spice ‘bhoot jolokia’ or ‘ghost pepper’ made it to the Guinness World Records as world’s hottest chili pepper in 2007. Its hotness is measured in Scoville heat units and comes in at a massive 1,001,304. Cultivated in the North-eastern states of Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Nagaland and Manipur, the pepper’s intense heat makes it a fixture in competitive chili pepper eating