18 Tainted MPs Get Guns at Subsidized Prices

Bangalore: The Members of Parliament (MPs) in India do get access to weapons easily without any glitch. In a data provided by the government to Right To Information (RTI) activists Ambarish Pandey shows that 82 MPs purchased guns seized by the customs department of which 18 have serious cases pending against them, reports Hindustan Times.

Among the 82 MPs who got guns at subsidized price, twenty-seven of them are from Uttar Pradesh. The guns were sold to politicians like Atiq Ahmad who had 44 criminal cases pending against him. He was a mafia before he turned in to a politician. Ahmad got the Ruger Rifle M-77 for hunting purpose and not for self defence.

Similar allotments have been made to Abu Azim Azmi and Rakesh Sachan both of whom have seven criminal cases pending against them. Government policies in 1990 said that Non-Prohibited Weapons could be given to the government officials on lease on the condition that the weapons should be returned after their retirement.