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Pimpri Chinchwad police commissioner cancels gun licences of realtor, criminal

According to the police, the real estate dealer got injured after his revolver, kept in his waist, fell on the floor as he was preparing for the Ganesh festival on August 27, and a bullet was misfired.

2 min readPuneDec 2, 2025 03:59 PM IST

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The Pimpri Chinchwad police have cancelled the firearms licence issued to two men identified as Mayur Gulab Sonawane, a real estate dealer and a resident of Khed, Pune district, and Pravin Suresh Lukkar, involved in criminal cases, according to the order issued by Vinoy Kumar Choubey, Commissioner of Police, on Monday.

According to the police, Sonawane, who owned a revolver, got injured in his leg as he was preparing for the Ganesh festival at his residence on August 27, after the firearm attached to his waist fell on the floor and a bullet was misfired.

The police at the Mahalunge MIDC police station had booked Sonawane under Section 125 (b) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) for committing an “act endangering life or personal safety of others”, the police said in a statement on Tuesday.

Praveen Lukkar, a resident of Chikhali in Pimpri Chinchwad, was booked under three criminal offences registered at the Nigdi police station, but had obtained a firearms licence, concealing his criminal cases, the police said in the statement. He also has a criminal case pending against him in a Pune court. But in his application seeking an arms licence, he mentioned only one offence registered against him and hid the details of the other two and the court case against him.

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Police Commissioner Choubey had ordered an inquiry against Sonawane and Lukkar, and based on the findings, their gun licences were cancelled on Monday, the press release stated.

Earlier in the year, the firearms licences of four other men, identified as Santosh Dattatraya Pawar, Santosh Pandurang Kadam, Dinesh Babulal Singh, and Ganpat Bajirao Jagtap, were cancelled by the Pimpri Chinchwad Police Commissioner.

The Pimpri Chinchwad police have rejected applications seeking gun licences of 41 people during October and November, as they failed to give any satisfactory reasons for the possession of firearms.

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In all, Choubey rejected applications of 58 people who sought gun licences this year, the statement said.

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