Court convicts ex-Army man of murder by tracing pistol ownership

Judge says investigating officers need to be sensitised to importance of firearm tracing

‘Every firearm tells a story’, a sessions court in Nuh said, convicting a former Army official for shooting dead a man over a trivial dispute after tracing the ownership of the murder weapon through the Unique Identification Number engraved on the pistol.

Additional sessions judge Prashant Rana, while sentencing the convict Khalid to life imprisonment, also stressed that the investigating officers and the public prosecutors need to be sensitised to the importance of firearm tracing and its role in justice delivery system.

The judge noted that there was a delay in dispensation of justice, of around one year, in this case on account of lapse of the Investigating Officer in tracing the ownership of the recovered firearm.