Times of India: Chandigarh: Friday, August 03, 2018.
More than two
and a half years after weapons were looted by a mob from Pillu Khera police
station of Jind district in violence during the February 2016 Jat agitation,
police have not been able to trace the missing firearms. The weapons were
deposited by the licence holders prior to the panchayat elections in Haryana in
September 2015.
Police
admitted that the weapons had not been traced yet while responding to an application
filed under the RTI Act by former Army personnel Subhash of Gangoli village in
Jind. As per the public information officer, pistol of Subhash were missing.
Subhash said
he had purchased the pistol from Kolkata on his licence, which was taken in custody
by the Pillu Khera police in September 2015. He said it was among weapons
looted in the riots of Jat quota stir of February 2016 from the police station.
He said
despite several requests made by him to the local administration, top police
and civil officials, his weapon had not been recovered so far. Subhash said
even his request seeking permission to purchase another weapon on his licence
had been declined.
“Every
official concerned has told me that the matter was not within their
jurisdiction,” he alleged, adding that he would keep on struggling to get his
pistol traced and recovered.
During the
Jat quota stir, a mob had attacked the Pillu Khera police station and had taken
away firearms kept there that belonged to private licence holders and one
service revolver of a sub-inspector Ram Mehar. An FIR about the incident was
lodged.
When
contacted, Jind superintendent of police (SP) Arun Kumar said police had been
trying to trace the accused to recover the looted weapons. The Pillu Khera
station house officer (SHO) said he had recently joined the police station so
he would be able to comment on the investigations to trace the missing weapons
after going through the case files.
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