Gurgaon: A 26-year-old man was convicted of murder by additional sessions of Judges in Noah after the court tracked the ownership of the gun used in crime through a unique identification number seen in a weapon sketch.
Three years ago, Khalid (26) – Former Army Army – had shot dead a 32-year-old village resident in Bisru Noah after a fight during a volleyball match.
Even though the police had restored the murder weapon – .32mm pistol – they did not track the ownership of the gun after Khalid denied him.
On September 2, 2018, Khalid, Aamil and several others from the village they went to play volleyball with neighboring local team Tain.
Both teams have kept Rs 4,900 each with Khalid and winners should get all the number as a gift.
When Tain Tain won the match, brother Aamil Aadil asked Khalid to pay them along the amount.
But Khalid refused to give the money and threatened to teach Aadil lessons after reaching their village in Bisru.
The same night, Khalid and his colleagues went to Aamil’s house and shot him dead on the page after the argument over the prize money.
He was arrested four days later and ordered for murder and under the relevant weapons.
In court, Khalid denied he had something to do with a gun found in his house and the police also failed to build a gun ownership.
During hearing in September last year, the additional session of Judge Prashant Rana observed that there were numbers engraved on the gun while through one of the arms sketches submitted by the police.
The search began on the internet with a unique number and revealed that the gun was produced at a rifle factory at Ichhapore Kolkata in 2018.
The court ordered that an officer was deployed to track the ownership of the gun.
The police contacted a gun factory, and learned that the gun had been sold to a mukesh warehouse, which in turn, has been supplying to the weapons house in Jammu.
The owner of the pistol house was contacted, and he revealed that the .32mm pistol had been sold to one Khalid along with 50 bullets after storing a copy of the license.
After the ownership of the murder weapons was established, the court observed that the violation carried out by Khalid was “the highest gravity” and he deserved “strict punishment so he repented and reformed himself” and “no one else repeats such a violation”.
The court then said imprisonment for life to Khalid along with a fine of Rs 10,000.