The Nagpur police on Thursday booked a TV journalist under the Arms Act for entering the Police Commissioner"™s office and the High Court premises with a country-made pistol. The reporter has claimed he did so as part of a sting operation.
Kaushal Pande, the local TV9 channel journalist, claimed in his TV report on Wednesday that he purchased the weapon, a magazine and six rounds for Rs 40,000 from a place on Maharashtra-Madhya Pradesh border and carried it unhindered on HC premises and the CP office premises without being questioned.
He showed some clippings in the report of
his movements too to drive home the point that despite repeated terror threats security continued to remain slack."We have booked him under the Arms Act. He has no licence for the gun," police said.