JAMMU, Aug. 3 -- A Jammu court has sentenced the proprietor of M/s Himalaya Arms Company to one-year imprisonment for dishonestly using a forged transport permit to send 171 double-barrel guns from Jammu to Kanpur for proof testing. Chief Judicial Magistrate Jammu, Munish K. Manhas, awarded the sentence to Vinay Kumar Verma after holding him guilty of an offence under Section 471 of the Ranbir Penal Code, which deals with fraudulent or dishonest use of a forged document as genuine.
The court, however, acquitted Verma of the charge under Section 420 RPC, observing that the prosecution had failed to prove that his act caused, or was likely to cause, damage or harm to the body, mind, reputation or property of any person.
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