The Central Bureau of Investigation on Saturday conducted searches at multiple locations in Jammu and Kashmir and Delhi, including at the ...
The Central Bureau of Investigation on Saturday conducted searches at multiple locations in Jammu and Kashmir and Delhi, including at the house of former Srinagar Deputy Commissioner Shahid Iqbal Choudhary, in connection with an arms licence racket, reported The Indian Express. The case pertains to issuing fraudulent gun licences by state officials for money between 2012 and 2016.
The CBI raided the premises of former public servants and around 20 gun houses spread across various areas, including Jammu, Srinagar, Udhampur, Rajouri, Anantnag, Baramulla and also Delhi, according to the central agency. Gun houses are ammunition stores.
In a statement, the CBI claimed that over 2.78 lakh arms licences were given to people who were not residents of the areas where the licences were issued.
“During investigation and scrutiny of documents, the role of certain gun dealers was found who in connivance with the public servants i.e. the then DM [district magistrate] and ADM [additional district magistrate] of concerned District had allegedly issued such illegal arms licenses to the ineligible persons,” the statement added.
The case is related to a gun licence racket unearthed by Rajasthan Police in 2017 after they found people – most of them with criminal records – possessing licensed weapons issued by authorities in Jammu and Kashmir, reported NDTV.
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