Tarn Taran: Suraj Bhandari, the district manager of the Seva Kendra in Tarn Taran, was running a big network of fake arms licenses in connivance with some officials of the DC office. Tarn Taran police has exposed this network.
Police arrested three of Suraj’s henchmen and recovered 24 fake arms licenses, three blank copies of mobile arms licenses and government stickers from their hideout.
Suraj Bhandari, the mastermind of this network, is said to be absconding with his partner Raghav. After the arrest of the above accused, there has been a stir in the DC office.
SSP Ashwini Kapoor said that it took his team 2 months to expose this network. The arrested accused have been identified as Pawandeep Singh alias Mantri resident of village Mallian, Shamsher Singh resident of Jhander and Gurmeet Singh resident of Phelloken, while the mastermind of the network and the district manager of the service center Suraj Bhandari resident of village Kidi Shah and Raghav Kapoor resident of Jaspal Nagar Amritsar are absconding.
The surprising thing is that nobody suspected their fake license and even the gun house owners used to sell weapons to the license holders on the basis of this license.
It is believed that the said accused have made about 500 fake licenses so far on which the license holders have also bought weapons from the gun house.
On coming to know about this, SP Ashwini Kapoor has appealed to those people to submit their licenses to the police and return the weapons, otherwise they can also be punished. The said accused used to take one and a half to two lakh rupees for making a license. Out of which one lakh rupees was taken by Suraj Bhandari and the rest was divided among themselves.
After the interrogation, many more names have also come to the fore. SSP Ashwani Kapoor said that Suraj Bhandari was running the said network in collaboration with some employees of the DC office. At present, Suraj Bhandari is absconding. After his arrest, many more faces along with many more secrets related to this network will be revealed.