3 cops booked for missing weapons

All the three — Ram Kumar Singh,Virendra Bahadur Singh and Lalta Prasad — booked are police armours,who are responsible for the safe room where arms and ammunition are kept. They have been booked under Section 409 of the IPC (criminal breach of trust by public servant). No one has,however,been arrested.

For the last two days,police conducted an inquiry to locate the missing arms and ammunition. They did not find any evidence to establish that arms and ammunition were stolen from inside the safe room. SP of Pratapgarh,Kiran S,said as per the records,the weapon went missing after August 8.

Meanwhile,police have beefed up security at the police lines,and outsiders have been barred from entering the campus .

The matter came into light after the SP directed the officials to physically verify arms and ammunition kept at the police lines.