HC acquits man after police fail to prove pistol was in working condition
Hindustan TimesThe Punjab and Haryana high court has acquitted a Faridkot man, 22 years after he was booked in an Arms Act case, as the court found that it could not be proved whether firearm was in working condition. it cannot be said that the weapon allegedly recovered was a firearm in a working condition designed to discharge a projectile,” the bench recorded while quashing the trial court orders. It was against this order that he had approached the high court contending that the pistol allegedly recovered from him had not been proved to be in working condition in the absence of it having been test fired. The court referred to various judgments passed in this regard and recorded that test firing is not required where the weapon has been examined and found to be in working condition.
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