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Del HC resolves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Delhi High Court: <\/strong>Deciding a matter of whether an NRI person in possession of two live ammunitions with a valid license can be registered under Section 25 of Arms Act or not, Asha Menon, J., held that, prima facie no malafide intent was found and the licence found was a valid arms licence.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A petition was filed for quashing an FIR under Section 25 of the Arms Act, 1959 registered at IGI Airport, Delhi.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Submission of petitioner\u2019s counsel was that he was a Non-Resident Indian (NRI) and travelling from Delhi to Dubai when two live ammunitions were detected in his check-in-baggage. It was found that he had a valid licence.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Prosecution alleged that he was not in conscious possession of the cartridges.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\">Analysis, Law and Decision<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">High Court cited the decisions of this Court in <em>Davinder Singh Dhindsa v. State (NCT of Delhi), <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scconline.com\/DocumentLink\/Aj3FGE65\">2019 SCC OnLine Del 7895<\/a>, <em>Jasbir Chahal v. State, <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scconline.com\/DocumentLink\/w5Vh31FF\">2018 SCC OnLine Del 8839<\/a> and <em>Dhanwant Kaur v. State<\/em>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scconline.com\/DocumentLink\/jjRAnHQw\">2016 SCC OnLine Del 5492<\/a>, where 1 or 2 live cartridges have been found in the possession of the accused, have taken a view that <em>mens rea <\/em>or <em>mala fide<\/em> intention must be present supporting a \u201cconscious possession plea\u201d of the prosecution and in the absence of any such evidence, even <em>prima facie, <\/em>there would be no reason to deny the relief to the petitioner.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Bench found a valid arms licence in the possession of the petitioner and the bullets recovered were relatable to the licensed weapon.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">No <em>prima facie<\/em> evidence was found that he had any mala fide intent in keeping the ammunition and the safety of the passengers was not threatened. The possession was not conscious.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In view of the above discussion, the petition was allowed and FIR under Section 25 of the Arms Act, 1959 along with other proceedings emanating therefrom was quashed. [Karamjit Singh v. State (NCT of Delhi), <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scconline.com\/DocumentLink\/kbt7J7Pd\"><b>2022 SCC OnLine Del 800<\/b><\/a>, decided on 22-3-2022]<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Advocates before the Court:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">For the Petitioner: Ajay Pal Tushir, Advocate<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">For the Respondent: Avi Singh, ASC with Karan Dhalla and Mizba, Advocates for State with SI Ramesh Chand, PS IGI Airport<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Delhi High Court: Deciding a matter of whether an NRI person in possession of two live ammunitions with a valid license can <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8808,"featured_media":260899,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,10],"tags":[45922,20031,29064,2543,29785,42834,35863],"class_list":["post-264206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-casebriefs","category-highcourts","tag-ammunition","tag-arms-act","tag-arms-licence","tag-Delhi_High_Court","tag-law","tag-legal-news","tag-malafide-intention"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.4 (Yoast SEO v26.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>If you are found in possession of live ammunition along with a valid arms licence, can an offence under S. 25 of Arms Act still be registered against you? 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