| GRP bust fake arms licence scam, 7 arrested by puneetmafia on 15 September, 2012 - 12:00 PM | ||
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 puneetmafia | GRP bust fake arms licence scam, 7 arrested on 15 September, 2012 - 12:00 PM | |
The Kurla Government Railway Police (GRP) busted a fake arms license racket on Tuesday and arrested the seven persons involved. The GRP also recovered eight 12-bore rifles, seven live cartridges, 14 fake gun licenses, 13 blank gun licenses, fake seals and stamps of several district arms magistrates of Bihar and Jharkhand. These include the districts of Gopalganj, Sasaram and Bhagalpur in Bihar and Girdih and Ranchi in Jharkhand. Describing their modus operandi, Mumbai GRP commissioner, Prabhat Kumar, said that the gang members operated from a rented room in a chawl at Sambhaji Chowk, New Mill Road, in Kurla (West).“The gang filled blanks license forms and applied the fake seals and stamps before selling them to unsuspecting, unsuspecting buyers,” he said. He added that the group had been involved in this scam for the past 16 years and was headed by 38-year-old Uma Shankar Gang Singh. They sold each license along with a rifle for Rs40,000 to needy, unemployed Bihari youths in Mumbai who needed them for a job as a private security guard or a gunman in private security agencies. Acting on information they received on Tuesday evening, inspector DB Pable along with a team nabbed one of the arrested accused, Bharat Chandrama Singh, with a 12-bore rifle and three live bullets at the Lokmanya Tilak Terminus at Kurla. When he was checked, Pable found two different gun licenses issued by the Gopalganj arms magistrate in Bharat’s name. Looking into this, Pable found that the license was fake and had been purchased from Uma Shankar. Based on this information, the GRP team raided Uma Shankar’s chawl. Besides Uma Shankar, GRP personnel also arrested Bharat Singh, 37, Amarendar Singh, 19, Uma Shankar Ghanshyam Singh, 23, Parmanand Singh, 42, Anil Kumar Singh, 27 and Arjun Singh, 36. “They were booked under the Indian Arms Act and also for forgery and criminal conspiracy,” said Shivaji Dhumal, senior inspector (GRP) of Kurla. | ||