Shahjehanabad police have booked a habitual offender who obtained arms license using forged documents; police have registered case after completing investigation which took one year.
The accused Juned Akhtar is resident of Goharganj tehsil in Raisen district and used forged document by using address of a businessman in Shahjehanabad area for obtaining arms license.
The fraud surfaced after a lawyer based in Bhopal lodged complaint against the accused after he came to know about the forgery. The complaint was made around a year ago. However even after a complaint the Shahjehanabad police took over a year to register case against the accused. Police said that the accused is a relative of habitual offender of Bhopal and around eight years ago, he managed to obtain license of 12 bore gun in his name from Bhopal on the basis of voter ID card in the mentioned address was of a Bhopal based businessman in Shahjehanabad area.
Last year lawyer and complainant Gaurav Sharma lodged a complaint. After completion of the investigation accused has been booked by Shahjehanabad police and a case under section 30 of Arms Act has been registered and further investigation has been started.
The initial investigation of police found that in the year 2012, the accused used to live in a rented house in the area due to which his voter ID has mention of same area and later he did another fraud by managing to get voter ID of the address which was used in obtaining arms license.