India is known to have one of the strictest gun laws in the world.?Under the rules, even air guns, blank fire guns and paintballs are classified as weapons.?
So understandably for someone to be posing with an AK-47 rifle and posting it on social media is hugely problematic.?
That's the kind of trouble a Hyderabad municipal officer's husband got into after posting a picture holding an AK-47 as his WhatsApp status.?
According to The New Indian Express, Rajendra Nagar Corporator (TRS) Korani Srilatha¡¯s husband Mahatma unleashed controversy when he posted a photograph of himself posing with an AK-47.
A?TOI report states that soon after the picture went viral, Mahatma?switched off his mobile phone and became incommunicado.?Rajendra Nagar inspector G Suresh told TOI?that no gunmen were allotted to either the corporator or Mahatma.?
The police suspect that Mahatma may have asked for the weapon from a known person in the police department and taken the photograph without the knowledge of the holder.??
The New Indian Express report states that?Mahatma, who visited the Sardar Vallabbhai Patel National Police Academy, reportedly borrowed the gun from a policeman on bandobast duty.
¡°The police personnel on duty removed the bullets in the gun and let me pose with it,¡± he said. If the gunman had given the weapon to Mahatma for taking a?photograph, departmental action might be?initiated against him based on the instructions of senior officials, reports TOI.?