India, July 27 -- A Delhi court has upheld the four-year rigorous imprisonment awarded to a man found in possession of an illegal country-made pistol, saying the convict had demonstrated propensity towards repeated criminal conduct.

Additional Sessions Judge Saurabh Partap Singh, who was hearing the appeal filed by Virender alias Kala Badal, against an October 2025 order of a magisterial court sentencing him under the Arms Act, underlined that the credibility of police witnesses cannot be doubted merely because they belong to the State's law enforcement agency.

According to the prosecution, Virender was apprehended by the Crime Branch on June 17, 2019, near Jhareda village here following a tip-off.

A single-shot country-made pistol and...