Illegal arms making factory busted, three accused arrested

Meerut (IANS) | Medical police station of Meerut district of Uttar Pradesh raided an illegal arms manufacturing factory. In the raid, 5 pistols 32 bore and 4 pistols 315 bore as well as equipment for making weapons have been seized.
Superintendent of Police Crime Anit Kumar told on Friday that, “Police had received an information regarding the manufacture and supply of arms.”
The ASP said that, acting on the inputs, an illegal country-made arms manufacturing unit was busted along with the arrest of three arms suppliers involved in the manufacture and supply of arms inside a locked flat in Extension Society of Jagriti Vihar area under Medical Police Station. raided. In this action, 5 pistols 32 bore, 4 pistols 315 bore and equipment made in large quantities have been recovered. All these tools were used to make indigenous guns.
The arrested accused have been identified as Anas (22), Shadan (25) and Shoaib (23). While one accused managed to escape.
The ASP said that the accused have confessed to the crime during police interrogation and the supply of weapons is prepared on demand and pistols are supplied for Rs.35,000 and pistols for Rs.6,000 in Meerut, besides Delhi, Muzaffarnagar and Baghpat districts.
According to the information, the Medical Police Station, on the intelligence information, has caught the illegal arms factory running inside the closed flat in the Extension Society of Jagriti Vihar area. The local police is probing further.
–IANS