PTI
Kishtwar/Jammu, March 30
The Jammu and Kashmir Police on Thursday booked Varinder Singh, suspected to be the bodyguard of the fugitive radical preacher Amritpal Singh, under the Arms Act in reference to a gun licence issued to him in Kishtwar district, officers stated.
The district administration additionally cancelled Varinder Singh’s licence, and stated it’s going to probe how the previous military jawan, who was sacked in 2015, procured the licence in 2014 after which saved getting it renewed in totally different districts of Jammu and Kashmir.
Police stated Varinder Singh, also called Fauji, was a part of a non-public safety arrange for Khalistan sympathiser Amritpal Singh, who’s on the run.
A video just lately confirmed Varinder Singh, the bodyguard of Waris Punjab De chief Amritpal Singh, opening hearth in the air.
After the clip appeared, the Punjab Police arrested him final week, slapped the National Security Act on him and lodged in a jail in faraway Assam.
Kishtwar Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Khalil Poswal instructed PTI on Thursday that there was additionally a necessity to examine how Varinder Singh bought the licence.
“Accordingly, we have now lodged an FIR under quantity 52/2023 under part 3/25/30 Arms Act and provisions of IPC registered in police station Kishtwar,” he stated.
He additional stated that police has conveyed the main points of the case to Punjab Police and sought paperwork from them. “We will search the presence of that individual. He (Varinder Singh) will likely be introduced right here to conduct investigation and to learn the way he reached right here and the way he bought license from right here.” Giving additional particulars, he stated that the gun license was issued to him in 2014 from Kishtwar Deputy Magistrate (DM) workplace.
He stated the CID wing of the Punjab Police just lately wrote to the DM Kishtwar that there was misuse of his gun license. “The matter was activated and Deputy Commissioner Kishtwar cancelled gun license,” the SSP stated.
Poswal stated that police can have to confirm as to under which circumstances the gun license was issued to him in the primary place as his military unit was by no means posted right here in Kishtwar.
“He was a jawan of the 96 regiment and was terminated in 2015. After issuance, his gun licence was getting renewed. The licence has been validated until 2025 from Ramban, Reasi, Baramulla and Kathua. There is a necessity to examine the case,” the SSP stated.
As for verification by police earlier than granting gun license to him, he stated that there was a letter from the then commandant to DM. “On that certificates, the gun licence was issued. There was certification or verification by police in Kishtwar in this case,” the SSP stated.
Amritpal Singh, in the meantime, stays elusive for the reason that police crackdown in opposition to him and members of his pro-Khalistan ‘Waris Punjab De’ outfit started on March 18, about three weeks after he and his supporters stormed into the Ajnala police station close to Amritsar to safe the discharge of an arrested man.
The Khalistan sympathiser escaped the police internet in Jalandhar district on March 18, switching automobiles and altering appearances.
He and his associates have been booked under a number of felony instances associated to spreading disharmony amongst courses, try to homicide, assault on police personnel and creating obstructions in the lawful discharge of responsibility by public servants.
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