Excelsior Correspondent
KISHTWAR, Mar 30: Police today booked Varinder Singh, suspected to be the bodyguard of the fugitive radical preacher Amritpal Singh, under the Arms Act in connection with a gun licence issued to him in Kishtwar district, officials said.
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The district administration also cancelled Varinder Singh’s licence, and said it will probe how the former Army jawan, who was sacked in 2015, procured the licence in 2014 and then kept getting it renewed in different districts of Jammu and Kashmir.
Police said Varinder Singh, also known as Fauji, was part of a private security set up for radical preacher Amritpal Singh, who is on the run.
Police have lodged an FIR 52/2023 under Section 3/25/30 Arms Act and provisions of IPC registered in Police Station Kishtwar.
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