Dehradun, June 5 -- The Uttarakhand Special Task Force (STF) carried out a major operation in Udham Singh Nagar district against the illegal use of arms obtained through forged licences issued in other states and later regularised for use in Uttarakhand, officials said.

Speaking exclusively to ANI, Uttarakhand STF IG Nilesh Anand Bharne said that based on confidential intelligence inputs received by the STF, it came to light that a large number of arms licences currently in circulation in Uttarakhand had been transferred from other states and registered in the state's arms records, with a possibility of forgery and procedural irregularities.

Acting on these inputs, the Special Task Force, over the past two months, has been conducting a ...