Srinagar, July 26, 2021 (PPI-OT):The fake gun license racket is the biggest racket in India and very sensitive Jammu and Kashmir. Four and a half lakh licenses were issued here in four years. More than half of these licenses have turned out to be fake. The wastage of the license can be estimated from the fact that the license applicant was duly submitted with the uniform, showing the former army and BSF personnel. An application for a gun license was also made in the name of Mahendra Singh Dhoni, the captain of the Indian cricket team, although his application was rejected.

According to South Asian Wire, the complicity of the officers and gun dealers was such that businessmen, mafia and others were issued licenses by pretending to be BSF and military personnel. From 2012 to 2016, 4 lakh 49 thousand licenses were issued from Kupwara, Baramulla, Udhampur, Rajori, Doda, Ramban and other districts. Out of these, 2 lakh 78 thousand licenses were found to be fake. More than half of the licenses issued in four years are fake, a big racket. This is the reason that in 2018 the investigation of this case was handed over to the CBI. According to the information, 36 thousand licenses were issued from Udhampur.

56 thousand fake licenses were issued from Kupwara. Licenses have been issued to 1.25 lakh people from the three districts of Udhampur, Doda and Ramban, who are residents of outside Jammu and Kashmir. In this racket, 50 people including IAS officer Rajiv Ranjan’s brother were arrested by Rajasthan STS. Mahendra Singh Dhoni, who was the captain of the Indian cricket team, has also applied for his gun license in Jammu and Kashmir, although he was not given the license.

From gun dealers to peons

Sources say that crores of rupees have been played in fake gun licenses. There were more than 72 people in Delhi, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Gurgaon, Noida, Punjab and Jammu and Kashmir who colluded with officers ranging from peons and each license was sold for Rs 10-12 lakh. Even the gun dealers had taken the contract to get the license renewed. Police raided the railway station of Jammu and recovered documents of 500 licenses from a gun dealer.

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