Illegal Arms And Licenses Seized By Punjab Police: Patiala

Many fake licenses of different kinds of illegal arms were being cancelled by the administration of the district, as the license holders failed to provide sufficient residential proofs and other local certificates so to prove them bona fides. Under the Section of 17 (3) C, Arms Act, 1959, the district magistrate of Patiala, Jasbir Singh, cancelled these licenses on Thursday morning and the license holders were made to wait outside the office until the decision was taken for cancellation.

It was the work of Patiala police that removed the mask of illegal arms supply. They started their operation from Amritsar and many staffs from the DC office joined them to help in the operation. Rajat Aggarwal, deputy commissioner of Amritsar, registered cases under the section of 465, 467, 471, 420 and 419 of IPC and under the Arms act of 59, 25, 54 and 25.

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Patiala SSP, provided a notice to the district magistrate on the matter that police Shambu, found 433 illegal arms and the licenses of those arms were found to be fake.  Recommendations were made for cancelling the licenses of the illegal arms supply.

Deputy Commissioner of Amritsar, Rajat Aggarwal said that for getting back the licenses, the license holders’ needs to provide a sufficient bonafide certificates, so that they can be proved as locals.

Out of 433 illegal licenses, only 4 of them could show sufficient proof of local residency certificates. Other 429 licenses were still marked as cancelled.

Apart from licenses, many arms and weapons were also seized by Punjab police. Around 18 Chinese weapons were seized and many people were also arrested. The prime among them was Vineet Darbar. Vineet Darbar, was arrested by CBI on 2003-04 and was released on bail. Again he was arrested by Haryana police for selling illegal weapons in Patiala.