August 17, 2026 08:32 am (IST)
Follow us:
facebook-white sharing button
twitter-white sharing button
instagram-white sharing button
youtube-white sharing button
After SC rebuke, BCI chief apologises to NALSAR students over enrolment freeze row | Independence Day: PM Modi’s big youth pitch— AI training, free coaching amid exam row and job concerns | ‘Shakti Ki Saptadhara’: Modi reveals 7 pillars to power India’s next leap in his I-Day speech from Red Fort | West Bengal STF arrests 3 more suspected Pakistani spies in Cooch Behar | Bengal man arrested in Bengaluru over terror links, Afghanistan travel plan | Ajit Doval breaks silence on Operation Sindoor in Discovery’s explosive new docuseries | Rahul Gandhi's 'mock hug' taunt sparks row; Centre stresses 'mutual respect' with Italy | Delhi on high alert: Bomb threat to High Court, airport and multiple locations ahead of I-Day | ‘Who are they to interfere?’: CJI Surya Kant slams Bar Council of India over NALSAR students’ enrolment row | 'Shows how low Congress has sunk': BJP slams Rahul Gandhi over Modi foreign policy jibe
BengalPolls

Bengal Polls: Eight guns, 200 bullets seized ahead of 3rd phase  

| @indiablooms | Apr 03, 2021, at 12:07 am

Kolkata/UNI: Police on Friday arrested an alleged underground arms dealer while he was smuggling 8 guns and some 200 bullets from neighbouring Jharkhand into the poll-bound West Bengal.

Following a tip-off, a special task force, in association with Dankuni police station, during frisking at toll plaza in a Kolkata-bound bus from Jharkhand arrested Brij Kishor Tiwary and seized the arms and ammunition from him.

He was carrying 7 one-shot guns, an automatic weapon and 200 bullets.

The accused is a resident of Torla village under Rehela police station under Palamu district of Jharkhand.

Bengal will go for a 3rd phase poll on April 6.

Support Our Journalism

We cannot do without you.. your contribution supports unbiased journalism

IBNS is not driven by any ism- not wokeism, not racism, not skewed secularism, not hyper right-wing or left liberal ideals, nor by any hardline religious beliefs or hyper nationalism. We want to serve you good old objective news, as they are. We do not judge or preach. We let people decide for themselves. We only try to present factual and well-sourced news.

Support objective journalism for a small contribution.