Kolkata: Police recover firearms from bus ahead of Bengal Polls
According to police reports, police team stopped a bus, which was coming from Bihar's Nawada district, in the morning at College Street area and started checking the vehicle.
Two single-shot pipe-guns, few crude bombs and as many as eight cartridges from a fruit-carton were found from the vehicle.
Four miscreants, who were identified as Md. Mintu, Md. Jumman, Sk. Raju and Sk. Siraz, were arrested during the operation .
According to police, Md. Mintu is a resident of Bihar and the remaining three are the residents of Kalabagan under Jorasanko Police Station area in Kolkata.
"We had a tip off that firearms were being trafficked from Bihar. We searched a bus, which was coming from Bihar, and seized these firearms. Four miscreants have also been arrested. They are being interrogated now. We are recovering firearms and arresting miscreants regularly from the entire city," one senior official of Kolkata Police told IBNS.
However, miscreants will be produced to a local criminal court in Kolkata later.
Meanwhile, Bidhannagar City Police on Thursday night booked one local miscreant- Nihar Mondal- along with two firearms, cartridges and few bombs, and recovered at least six crude bombs from a ground at Sulongburi and Yatragachi areas respectively in Kolkata's satellite town New Town, according to reports.
Assembly polls in the state will be starting from Apr 4.
(Reporting by Deepayan Sinha)
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