Guwahati: In a historic development, a function to transfer and hand over confiscated weapons from the Mizoram Firearms Bureau to the Mizoram Police was held for the first time ever on Monday at the Arya Mess, the police headquarters in Aizawl.
The home minister for Mizoram Lalchamliana attended the event as the main guest.
In the presence of the state home minister, other top government officials and police personnel, Commissioner and Secretary (Home) and Chairman, Mizoram Firearms Bureau H Lalengmawia presented the weapons to Mizoram DGP Devesh Chandra Srivastva who accepted them on behalf of Mizoram Police.
The Government of Mizoram established a Firearms Bureau for the State of Mizoram in accordance with the Arms Rules, 2016, in which the District Magistrate of Aizawl District serves as a member and the Home Secretary of the Government of Mizoram serves as the chairman on February 10, 2021.
The Firearms Bureau is a body where all seized, recovered, confiscated or surrendered firearms or ammunition are placed for the Bureau to dispose of or destroy depending on the circumstances of these objects.
Currently, the Mizoram Firearms Bureau does not have a separate office or staff; instead the Central Armory of the Mizoram Police handles both the Bureau’s business and that of the 1st Bn Central Armory on behalf of AIGP (P&L). MAP, Aizawl is adopted as its Armoury.
From every district in Mizoram, the Firearms Bureau gathers data on the availability of weapons or ammunition that can be delivered to the Bureau. The office employees physically pursued the search whenever necessary, and it is because of their eagerness that the Mizoram Police received a substantial amount of guns and ammunition.
The estimated total value of these items is Rs. 50 lakh.
49 firearms and 48 grenade shells were transferred and handed over to Mizoram Police from Mizoram Firearms Bureau – 24 AK Type 56 Rifles, 8 AK type 81 Rifles, 7 M4 A1 Carbines, one MA3 MK-II Rifle, 6 H&K Series Rifles, 2 MA 3 MK-II Rifles Drum side Magazine with Bipod, one number of Carbine BA94 MK-I, 48 numbers of 40 mm Grenade Shell.