Judgment

Mr. Deepak Gupta, J.

By way of this petition filed under Section 482 CrPC, petitioner prays for quashing of the FIR No.59 dated 27.04.2016 registered under Section 30 of the Arms Act, 1959 at Police Station Jamalpur, Ludhiana and all other consequential proceedings arising therefrom.

2.1 FIR in question was lodged on the basis of complaint dated 07.03.2016 made by one Sushil Kumar to the Commissioner of Police, Ludhiana alleging therein that petitioner was issued an Arms license in August 2002 by Deputy Commissioner, Ludhiana, on which a DDBL of 12 bore gun was entered. Petitioner did not get the said license renewed after the expiry of its validity period in August 2011 and unauthorizedly retained the gun with him till 01.04.2014.

2.2 Enquiry was conducted and it was found that petitioner illegally retained the gun till 01.04.2014 and when the authorities directed all the arms holders to submit their respective weapons before Parliamentary elections in 2014, then the petitioner submitted the gun in routine with the police station on 02.04.2014 and this way petitioner had committed an offence under Section 30 of the Arms Act. After necessary investigation, challan has already