Kolkata Police bust illegal arms smuggling racket, 2 ordnance factory staffers among 6 held
Kolkata, May 7 (IBNS): Kolkata Police's Special Task Force (STF) arrested six persons, including two employees of Cossipore Gun and Shell Factory, on Monday morning,for their alleged involvement in an illegal firearms smuggling racket, officials said.
"Acting on specific source inputs, we held six persons, including two employees of Cossipore Gun and Shell Factory- Sukhda Murmi alias Munmun and Susanta Basu alias Basuda, from Babughat area in connection with an arms smuggling racket, and seized seven revolvers, one carbine and 10 rounds of ammunition from their possessions," Deputy Commissioner (STF) of Kolkata Police, Murli Dhar Sharma, told IBNS.
"We have information that a few employees of ordnance factories were involved in the racket. They used to collect scrapped rifles and revolvers from Gun and Shell Factory's store and after repairing the firearms, smuggle those through Bihar-based operatives," Murli Dhar said.
"We are interrogating the arrested and trying to identify others involved in this arms smuggling racket," the senior IPS official added.
A source in the city police told IBNS that the arms and ammunition were reportedly smuggled to mafias, Maoists and other extremist groups in Bihar, Jharkhand and Nepal.
The arrested will be produced before a city court on Monday.
(Reporting by Deepayan Sinha)
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