Pune Police bust fake arms licensing racket, seize nine rifles from 9 J&K residents

Multiple raids were conducted simultaneously successful Ahilyanagar and Pune territory and 9 men from Jammu and Kashmir’s Rajouri territory were apprehended.

Police seized 9 12-bore rifles, which had been purchased utilizing fake arms licenses, and 58 unrecorded cartridges from them. “All these arms licences had been shown to person been issued by the territory collector of Rajouri. To verify the authenticity of these licences, a connection was initiated with the Rajouri collector’s office. It came to airy that the licenses had not been distributed by their bureau and the said weapons licences were fake,” said an serviceman who is portion of the probe.

The serviceman added, “A associated probe was launched into the fake licensed and fraudulently obtained rifles. It came to airy that a suspect, identified arsenic Sher Ahmed Ghulam Hasan, was the main facilitator for obtaining fake arms licences and 12-bore rifles for the accused to get jobs arsenic information guards. He besides procured the ammunition for them. A thorough probe has been launched into however the licences were obtained and besides the proviso concatenation of amerciable merchantability of rifles.”

A lawsuit successful this respect has been registered astatine Tofkhana constabulary station. The arrested accused person been identified arsenic Shabbir Mohammad Iqbal Hussain Gujjar (38), Mohammad Saleem alias Salem Gul Mohammad (32), Mohammad Safraj Nazir Hussain (24), Jehangir Zakir Hussain (28), Shahbaz Ahmed Nazir Hussain (33), Surjit Rameshchandra Singh, Abdul Rashid Chidia (38), Tufel Ahmed Mohammed Gazia and Sher Ahmed Ghulam Hussain