Bhagalpur: The district administration is taking steps to cancel the arms licences provided to persons who are suspected to be connected to the Rs 1,300-crore Srijan government fund transfer scam and are currently under the CBI scanner.

The decks are being cleared to complete the formalities connected to the cancellation of licences.

Bhagalpur district magistrate Adesh Titarmare, in a letter to senior superintendent of police (SSP) Manoj Kumar, has sought details of such firearms licence-holders.

Names of seven such persons - Manorama Devi (now dead), Abhishek Verma, Pranav Kumar Ghosh, Vipin Kumar, NV Raju, Amit Kumar and Priya Kumar - are mentioned in the letter.

While Avishek possessed a rife, Manorama, Pranav and Vipin own revolvers. The licence numbers are also mentioned in the letter.

The DM's missive further says that Raju had applied for a firearms licence, while Amit and Priya had procured licences but did not purchase any firearms.

The SSP said the process of verification of all the documents of the licence-holders will be conducted soon.

Sources in the administration said Manorama, the founder of Srijan, had managed to obtain a licence for a revolver way back in 2004, when K.P. Ramaiah was the Bhagalpur district magistrate. She had obtained a licence for a revolver.