Office-In-Charge of the Bowbazar Police Station sent a list of the licensed arms holders who had failed to deposit their licensed arms in compliance with the direction of the Election Commission of India. The name of the petitioner also featured on the said list at Entry No. 17. It is submitted that despite the requests made by the petitioner to the Deputy Commissioner of Police, Arms Act Department, Kolkata to make the necessary changes in the Department’s records pertaining to the petitioner’s changed residential address, the list of defaulters dated 10.05.2014 unequivocally indicates that the Department made no effort at updating their records pertaining to the change in the petitioner’s residential address although the necessary changes were endorsed in the petitioner’s license in 2008 itself. Consequently, on the basis of the list of defaulters dated 10.05.2014, the Officer-in-charge of the Bowbazar Police Station (ASI Dipankar Gorain) filed a suo motu complaint against the petitioner and 29 others for investigation, registered as Bowbazar Police Station Case No. 209 dated 10.05.2014 under section 188 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860 read with Section 30 of the Arms Act, 1959 alleging inter alia that the accused persons had, in defiance of the direction to the Election Commission of India, failed to deposit their licensed arms.
