Keeping in view the upcoming Lok Sabha elections I G Indore Zone Indore (Rural) Anurag and D I G Nimad Range Atul Singh directed to curb the manufacturing of illegal weapons and illegal buying and selling. In compliance with the above instructions, Superintendent of Police Khargone Dharamraj and ASP (Rural) Manohar Singh Baria and ASP (City) Tarunendra Singh Baghel and all the sub-divisional police officers and station in-charges were directed to take effective action.
A special police team has been formed by ASP Khargone (City) Tarunendra Singh Baghel which will continuously work to identify and destroy the network of illegal firearms.
On date 07.04.24, outpost in-charge Ahirkheda police station Gogawan, SI Dharmendra Yadav received information from the informer that 2 suspicious persons from other state were going to come to village Signur to buy illegal fire arms. Taking immediate action on the information of the informer, Under the guidance of ASP Tarunendra Singh Baghel and SDOP Rakesh Arya, a special police team was formed and sent to the place mentioned by the informer.
The police team hid near the water tank of village Signur at the place mentioned by the informer and for some time, two persons of the same description as described by the informer were seen. After some time, Ramesh Uttam Singh Sikligar, resident of village Signur, came with a white colored bag in his hand and started trading with the two above mentioned accused persons by taking out weapons from the bag. The police team took immediate action and laid siege and tried to catch everyone, in which Ramesh Sikligar ran away throwing his bag on the spot.
When the police team asked the names and addresses of both the arrested persons, they gave their names as Gurmeet Singh, father Baldev alias Nikkrasingh, caste Majbi Sikh, resident of Court, Pura Bhatinda, Punjab and Vikram son of Mahendra caste Jat, age 26 years, resident Mud Kheda Block Adampur District Hisar, Haryana.
When the police team searched Gurmeet, a country-made pistol was found in his possession and when Vikram was searched, a country-made pistol was also found in his possession. When the police team asked both the persons about the license or document regarding possession of the pistol, they said that they did not have any license or document. The police team duly seized one illegal fire arm from the waist of both the accused and 22 from their bag. Thus, a total of 24 illegal fire arms worth approximately Rs 4,70,000/- have been duly seized by the police team.
The accused arrested for the said act were Gurmeet Singh son of Baldev alias Nikkrasingh, caste Sikh, resident of Court, Pura Bhatinda, Punjab, Vikram son of Mahendra, caste Jat, age 26 years, resident Mud Kheda Block, Adampur District, Hisar Haryana and absconding accused Ramesh son of Uttam Singh Sikligar, under section 25 of the Arms Act was registered and discussed. An NDPS case is already registered against accused Gurmeet in Punjab. Both the above accused have been arrested and are being produced before the Honorable Court. After obtaining police remand of the accused, they will be interrogated regarding their bank accounts and illegal fire arms in Haryana and Punjab.
In the above action, under the guidance of SDOP Section Bhikangaon Rakesh Arya and under the leadership of Police Station Incharge Gogaon Inspector Dinesh Solank.