Fake gun licences: Reasi police establish 9 offenders

Following CBI raids at 40 locations in Jammu and Kashmir and Delhi in reference to issuance of arms licences to unauthorised individuals, police within the UT’s Reasi district on Monday claimed to have recognized 9 criminals, recurring offenders and history-sheeters who, on the pretext of self-protection, had managed to get gun licences from districts apart from their very own.
Pointing out that the sector report didn’t help any menace to them for which they wanted self-protection, Reasi SSP Shalindra Singh mentioned that they had been reasonably a menace to folks in view of possession of arms and ammunition. Some of them had been in possession of three weapons and ammunition for a few years, he added.
As it got here to the discover of police that these criminals had sparked concern within the minds of individuals and amassed big wealth through the use of these weapons, they ready a recent discipline report and approached the involved district magistrates with suggestions for cancellation of those licences.
While they received 5 gun licences cancelled, two had been discovered to be faux. Police have seized the weapons and registered circumstances, the Reasi SSP mentioned.
Those recognized embrace:
* Mohammad Asghar, who was named in two FIRs for allegedly harbouring terrorists and committing a homicide. He possessed a gun on the idea of a licence purportedly issued by the workplace of DM Udhampur in 1984. The police approached the DM’s workplace with a request to cancel his licence solely to seek out that there have been no such official data. The police filed an FIR and seized the gun.

* Mohammad Asger, who’s concerned in 10 circumstances of try to homicide, assault and theft from 2010, was maintaining a single barrel 12 bore gun on the idea of a licence presupposed to have been issued from the workplace of DM Poonch. The police approached the DM for cancellation of his licence, solely to seek out that it was faux. The police seized the gun and registered a case towards Asger.
* Rattan Lal had 12 circumstances of homicide, try to homicide, assault, kidnapping, theft and so on., registered towards him between 1984-89. He possessed a 12 bore gun after managing a gun licence from Srinagar district.