Nagpur: Repeated cases of drunk driving may now lead to cancellation of the owner’s arms licence.
Show cause notices were issued to around eight persons, including two prominent businessmen, after offences were registered against them.
In a first of its kind initiative, city police chief Amitesh Kumar held a ‘junta darbar’ for holders of arms licence at Police Gymkhana. He disposed of nearly 258 cases which remained unresolved since several months. They were related to the renewal of licences, issuing new ones and transferring them.
Kumar has now made it a norm for police officials to ensure that verifications and other formalities of the arms licences of senior citizens are conducted at their doorsteps.
The basic objective of conducting the ‘junta durbar’ for arms licences revolved around transparency and prompt disposals. “Orders for renewal of some licences were issued and a few instructions were also given for show cause notices too. We are contemplating revocation of arms licences of owners with serious offences,” said Kumar.
Sounding a warning, Kumar said, “We are not considering political offences and regular traffic violations but the ones having more than one drunk driving case may lose our trust. We may consider revocation of the arms licence of a drunk driver.”
Several ex-servicemen, security providing agencies, petrol pump owners, doctors and businessmen were present at the camp to voice their grievances related to arms licences. Kumar decided on each case after hearing the updates from the concerned police station personnel and staffers from the arms licence branch.