Dagger in baggage = JAIL

[Olly]

NEW DELHI: A man who had flown to New Delhi from Sharjah with a dagger in his baggage eight years ago has been sentenced to rigorous imprisonment for a year by a Delhi court for violating the Arms Act.

Bihar native Hafizullah was convicted by additional chief metropolitan magistrate Rajesh Kumar Goel who dismissed the argument of his counsel that the prosecution story cannot be believed in the absence of any public witness to the recovery of the dagger.

"I do not find any merit in the argument of the defence counsel that in the absence of the public witness to discovery of the dagger, the testimony of the police officials is liable to be rejected," Goel said while holding the accused guilty under the Arms Act and refusing to release him on probation. Convict Hafizullah had come from Sharjah on July 31, 2003, and was on his way to catch a connecting flight to Patna, when the dagger was detected in his baggage.
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If the dagger was in his cabin baggage, he was foolish.
If it was in the checked in baggage, well, what can I say...

But just for argument sake, he was flying in from Sharjah and obviously he wouldn't have been allowed to carry a dagger in the cabin baggage.... also, it was a DAGGER, and not a SWORD which means it could've been around 10-15 inches long.... which points to what - enforcement of the Arms Act ??

[nagarifle]

dagger can be of any size. unless we see the full court judgement its hard to say anything.

saying what the size of the dagger was, only then one can say if it lawful or not.

still its a sad case. what about kitchen knife which is over inches?

[dr.jayakumar]

his bad luck.indian law is so absurd.

[target shooter]

So, who will judge a judge in this country.