Gun house owner threatens ACP for refusing to sign arms licence file

A gun house owner entered the office of Assistant Commissioner of Police (licensing) Rajesh Sharma on the Police Commissionerate’s premises and threatened him of dire consequences for not signing the arms licence file of some applicant.

The ACP had refused to sign the file as the applicant, whose file the gun house owner was carrying, was not present. Following this, the suspect started arguments and issued threats to the official.

The incident occurred on May 7 and the city police registered a case after over four months. The suspect was identified as Sudarshan Sharma, a resident of Haibowal and owner of Akshit Gun House, Ghumar Mandi .

ACP Rajesh Sharma in a complaint submitted to the police stated that on May 7 around 1:30 pm, the suspect tried to meet him by sending his gun house ID card through his office staff. When he asked him to wait outside the office, the suspect started shouting loudly and created a scene. Later, when he called the suspect inside his office, he presented an arms licence file and asked for his signature.

“I told him I would not sign a file without an applicant. Afterwards, the suspect began arguing loudly. He told me in front of my office staff that I am deliberately not signing his file. If the file is not marked (signed), he would file a writ against me in the Punjab and Haryana High Court, Chandigarh, and warned that then I have to face the consequences,” Sharma said.

He said he then reported the incident to the police. The police registered a case against the suspect and registered a case under various sections of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS).