PRAYAGRAJ: As many as 23 youths in the four chambers of Prayagraj array — Pratapgarh, Prayagraj, Fatehpur and Kaushambi — have been detained under Arms Act for brandishing country-made firearms in presenting or weddings with the prohibited weapon on social networking involving May, 2020 and May, respectively 2021 at Prayagraj range.
In the most recent episode, a group of Prayagraj authorities on Thursday detained a 20-year-old-youth following a movie where he’s spotted dancing to the songs of this Bollywood thing amount’Tamanche Pe Disco’ while brandishing a country-made weapon in a wedding at Meja tehsil went viral to sociable networking three days back.
The youth confessed that the trend for internet fame and receiving a lot of followers and likes had threatened him to dancing on the ground using all the weapon that was illegal.
He’s been recognized as Ashish Kumar Yadav, a resident of Vindhyanchal (Mirzapur).
Yadav was detained under Sections 3 and 25 of Arms Act.
A country-made pistol of all .315 bore combined with a live capsule was seized from his possession, police said.
This isn’t an isolated instance.
As many as 23 youths such as 10 out of Pratapgarh, five from Prayagraj and Fatehpur, and three out of Kaushambi were detained under Arms Act for brandishing country-made firearms in presenting or weddings with the prohibited weapon on social websites involving May, 2020 and May, respectively 2021 at Prayagraj range.
In the past fortnight, three or more videos, such as that of a priest shooting a shot at the atmosphere when stepping to the point together with the certified weapon of her uncle at a distant village of Pratapgarh districtthat went viral to social networking.
The movie of this bride landed her into trouble.
An instance under Arms Act was registered against her Jethwara police channel of Pratapgarh.
Inspector general of government, Prayagraj scope, KP Singh, told TOI,”Directions are issued to each of four superintendents of police (SPs) to initiate stern action against these individuals posing with prohibited weapons on social networking or dance on the ground whilst brandishing them .” He added that these law breakers will be reserved under proper parts of Act and authorized actions could be initiated against them.
The IG additional,”Youngsters frequently land themselves in trouble after downloading movies of these in which they’re brandishing firearms while dance on a favorite Bollywood thing song to be able to get immediate recognition on social networking and raise their listing of followers” Singh explained that the social networking mobile of four districts of Prayagraj scope was requested to maintain a strict eye on these videos and also refer the situation to the concerned authorities stations when any movie travels viral about social networking.