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| Gun licences issued in J&K in names of security personnel | | | It has been left to the Anti-Terror Squad of Rajasthan to probe securing of gun licences fraudently. And if the reports available with the Rajasthan ATS it is evident that Deputy Commissioners have been found guilty of issuing gun licences in the name of Army personnel. Those belonging to the Army, the BSF and the CRPF, who were posted in Jammu and Kashmir, and the criminals, and supporters of Pakistan filed applications in the name of Army personnel to the Deputy Commissioners who were the issuing authorities during the last 20 years. Over 3,000 gun licenses issued in the purported name of army personnel during their stint in Jammu and Kashmir are under the scanner of Rajasthan's Anti-Terror Squad (ATS) which has asked the army to verify the names following suspected involvement of a gang to procure them illegally, police officials have said.
The case dates back to November last year when the Rajasthan police's ATS carried out an operation codenamed "Jubaida" and arrested 52 people so far for their alleged involvement in getting gun licenses issued from various districts of J and K under suspicious circumstances.
The licenses included 3,367 in the purported name of army personnel, the officials said. After unravelling the entire conspiracy, the officials of the ATS found that such licenses were issued by the Deputy Commissioners of the districts over the past one decade and no records were allegedly maintained for the same, they said. Letters were written in this connection to the Army, Indian Air Force, Navy, Coast Guard, seven para-military forces including the Border Security Force (BSF) and the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF), National Cadet Corps (NCC), Railway Protection Force (RPF) and National Disaster Response Force (NDRF). While majority of them had replied, a comprehensive response from the army was still awaited notwithstanding the reminders, the officials said. The first letter was sent to all the organisations on November 9, 2017 along with a list of personnel against whom the arms licenses had been issued. The police had asked these organisations to verify the names and submit relevant information which included their duration of tenure while being posted in Jammu and Kashmir.
While most organisations started furnishing their response, the army also submitted a list of 375 personnel without giving the time period when they had served in the militancy-infested border state prompting the Rajasthan police to send another letter on February 14 this year in which the attention of the army authorities was drawn to the seriousness of the case. "We have received information of only 375 personnel and after perusal of the report, we found that the despatched information is not in conformity to what we wanted. Some information is missing. It indicates a conspiracy to help militants to procure weapons fraudently for attacking the Indian forces. Official sources revealed that some of the in service and retired Deputy Commissioners may be in the soup for issuing gun licences in the name of some Army personnel. It is also revealed that hitherto militants have not faced by weapon problem and whenever they do they have been given funds for purchasing guns from any local market for which they could produce gun licences procured fraudently. It is expected that he Army reply will be forthcoming so that others connected with the trade are arrested. |
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