VADODARA: A security guard working at a farmhouse in Ampad was arrested on Tuesday by Vadodara rural police for possessing a double-bore gun with a forged licence.
On interrogating the security guard Ravi Sharma, he admitted that he had paid Rs 50,000 to Umar Faruk, an owner of a gun factory in Kashmir to get the gun license. Sharma is a native of Rajouri district in the Union territory of Jammu & Kashmir. Faruk had forged the stamps of district magistrate of Rajouri and Udhampur districts to stamp them on the duplicate license.
Sharma came under the police scanner when cops from Vadodara Taluka police station raided a businessman’s bungalow in Ampad last week.
Although police did not find any liquor there, cops saw the 12 bore double-barrel gun and asked Sharma to furnish the weapon’s license.
Sharma told police that license was deposited with the security agency’s office, so he was asked to report at the police station along with the license and the gun.
When Sharma did not turn up, cops brought him to the police station on Tuesday.
On checking his license, it was known that the license for the gun was issued in Sharma’s name in 1995 by the home department of former state of Jammu & Kashmir and was later renewed in 2014 and 2017. Police found it strange as Sharma was born in 1988 and it was not possible that a seven-year-old boy would have been issued a weapon’s license.
Police seized Sharma’s gun and cartridges and booked him and Faruk for forgery, criminal conspiracy and under Arms Act.
On interrogating the security guard Ravi Sharma, he admitted that he had paid Rs 50,000 to Umar Faruk, an owner of a gun factory in Kashmir to get the gun license. Sharma is a native of Rajouri district in the Union territory of Jammu & Kashmir. Faruk had forged the stamps of district magistrate of Rajouri and Udhampur districts to stamp them on the duplicate license.
Sharma came under the police scanner when cops from Vadodara Taluka police station raided a businessman’s bungalow in Ampad last week.
Although police did not find any liquor there, cops saw the 12 bore double-barrel gun and asked Sharma to furnish the weapon’s license.
Sharma told police that license was deposited with the security agency’s office, so he was asked to report at the police station along with the license and the gun.
When Sharma did not turn up, cops brought him to the police station on Tuesday.
On checking his license, it was known that the license for the gun was issued in Sharma’s name in 1995 by the home department of former state of Jammu & Kashmir and was later renewed in 2014 and 2017. Police found it strange as Sharma was born in 1988 and it was not possible that a seven-year-old boy would have been issued a weapon’s license.
Police seized Sharma’s gun and cartridges and booked him and Faruk for forgery, criminal conspiracy and under Arms Act.
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