Forged firearms licence racket busted, 3 security firm execs among 6 arrested

Hyderabad: Task Force police arrested six persons, including three private security company executives, for obtaining firearms by using forged arms licences. Police seized 33 firearms, ammunition and fake arms licences issued in the name of Rajouri district additional magistrate.

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The forged firearms procured are used for working in private security agencies.

Hyderabad police commissioner CV Anand said mastermind of the racket, Altaf Hussain, a resident of Rajouri district in Kashmir, came to Hyderabad in 2013 and joined a private security company, Grace Management Security Services (GMSS), and was later deployed as a gunman in SIS Cash Services Private Ltd at West Marredpally.