Indian In US Jailed For Illegally Selling Gun Silencers:- The Department of Justice said, an Indian in the US has been jailed for 30 months for illegally selling gun silencers and was planning to smuggle more.

The gun silencers are used to reduce the sound of guns. The accused, a resident of Pitampura in New Delhi, was identified as Mohit Chauhan (31). Under the supervised release, he was also sentenced to three years.

The sentencing came after he pleaded guilty before US District Judge Elizabeth Foote in Louisiana to one count of dealing firearms without a license. Chauhan was contacted by someone wishing to buy silencers, according to the guilty petition dated April 20, 2017. By email and phone calls, Chauhan discussed manufacturing silencers for the potential client and importing more silencers and parts by labeling them as “auto parts” to evade US Customs. He arrived in Shreveport on December 1 last year, after they set up a meeting, to meet the buyer and brought silencer parts with him. To discuss the sale details with the buyer, he traveled to a restaurant in Louisiana’s Bossier City. The meeting was recorded by the agents.

According to a statement by the department, Chauhan did not have a license to deal or conduct a business involving silencers and parts as required by law, and the silencers and parts had traveled in foreign commerce.

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