New Delhi: The Delhi police has booked a member of an erstwhile royal family after heavy quantity of arms and ammunition from the World War II era was seized from his house in Safdarjung Enclave.
The South district police filed an FIR on Tuesday at Safdarjung Enclave police station under relevant Sections of IPC and Arms Act.
The accused, Himmat Sher Singh, claims inheritance of the royal possession as the reason for storing these many cartridges and guns. All of the weapons and cartridges belong to his grandfather, Raja Ravi Sher Singh, Sardar Sahib of Kalsia, who died in 1946. He had a number of guns and did not need a license as the ruler of Kalsia. After his death, his son Karan Sher Singh, an Ashok Chakra winner Indian Air Force officer who died in a plane crash in 1961, possessed all of the ammunitions. He too did not need license as a ruler of Kalsia.
“Mr Singh failed to provide the necessary documents and such a huge quantity of arms and ammunitions could endanger the safety of others. He never took any permission and neither informed the police about the ammunitions at his house,” said a senior police official.
Some of these weapons and ammunitions were manufactured in the 19th century and even predates the Second World War. The seizure includes as many as four guns and 736 cartridges, many of them live ones, of different makes and meant to be used in different firearms. There are at least 17 kinds of cartridges and among those, 160 are too old or rusted to be identifiede.
Interestingly, the matter surfaced when Mr Singh informed the police about a burglary at his house in Safdurjung Enclave on July 11.
