By : Amit Kashyap.
Be ready to lose licence for posing with gun on social media and it can also land you in jail.
Haryana
The state police is set to cancel weapon licences of those who have been keeping guns just for fun or to assert their dominance.
In one such case, the Rohtak police recommended cancellation of the licence of a Jind youth, whose cousin had posed with his licensed gun in a photograph uploaded on Facebook.
The police said they had received a tip-off about Jind resident Suresh Soni uploading his photo with a gun on his Facebook page.
Upon investigation, it was found that the gun belonged to Suresh’s cousin Sonu and it was a licensed weapon.
“Suresh’s act of clicking a photo with someone else’s weapon and then uploading it on social media for show-off is a violation of the Arms Act.
We have sent a letter to Jind SP recommending cancellation of the licence since Sonu wrongly passed on his gun to his cousin,” Rohtak SP said.
He said the police were getting a lot of photographs from alert citizens regarding people misusing their licensed weapons to create fear.
In another incident, the CIA wing of Rohtak police arrested a Sonepat youth who had posted his picture with a country-made pistol on his Facebook account. The accused, identified as Rahul alias Gullu, is a gym trainer and had illegally obtained the pistol to create his fear among gym comers, police said.
“In case the weapon is licensed, we will cancel the license and if the weapon is illegally kept, we will arrest the accused under Arms Act,” Police warned.
Punjab
Cyber crime wing of the Punjab police is busy trawling Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and other social media outlets these days, and looking for weapons. People posing with guns, to be precise! And 15 such people are already under the scanner after the cyber wing’s social media cell traced location and asked the police stations concerned to take “appropriate action.
Madhya Pradesh
As many as 45 people have been arrested this year in Madhya Pradesh for possessing illegal weapons and posting pictures on social media with guns.
Uttar Pradesh
Recently mirzapur police started searching social media outlets and looking for people posing with weapons and arrested a person who uploaded a picture on Facebook posing with a gun which belongs to his maternal uncle. The license of that gun was immediately cancelled and he was arrested. Gun owners warned against posting selfies posing with weapons by mirzapur police.
New Delhi
Flaunting a weapon on social media proved to be a costly mistake for a youth who was arrested by the police. The man who supplied him the gun was also sent behind bars.
One Asif was arrested with a country-made pistol. While inspecting Asif ’s phone, cops found pictures of one another youth posing with a gun on Social media. Asif was questioned and he identified the person posing was Sahil.
He told cops that Sahil in a bid to bolster his image, uploaded photos of him posing with guns on Facebook. Sahil was later arrested from his house.
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