Police arrest arms dealer in Ballia
Ballia: The police arrested an arms dealer and his brother in Kotwali area of Ballia district on Friday for allegedly forging documents of sale of bullets. They were sent to jail on Saturday.
According to reports, Seraj Alam and Meraj Alam own a shop in the Loha Patti locality in Ballia Kotwali area. They were arrested on the basis of a complaint lodged by Kotwali police station SHO Bal Mukund Mishra.
Mishra said that they have been booked under sections 420 (Cheating), 467 (forgery of valuable security, will, etc), 468 (forgery for purpose of cheating) and 471 (fraudulently or dishonestly uses as genuine any document or electronic record) of IPC and 30 of Arms Act.
According to Mishra, an arms licence holder Manager Singh, a retired CRPF personnel and resident of Dumri village under Dubhar police station area, had bought only 10 cartridges from the accused but the dealer allegedly forged documents to show that he had bought 50 cartridges each on three dates — August 27, August 28 and September 1. This way the accused supplied 140 cartridges, which were recorded as sold to Singh, to unauthorised persons, he said adding that investigation revealed that the accused forged Manager Singh’’s signature and his licence.
The matter came to light after the Ballia district administration had recently launched a campaign to probe the instances in which an arms licence holder bought more than 100 cartridges.
