Could 24, 2025 08:21 PM IST
Moradabad Police arrested 9 people in an arms commerce bust, seizing firearms, ammunition, and instruments. The gang was distributing weapons regionally.
In a serious crackdown on unlawful arms commerce, Moradabad Police on Friday arrested 9 people accused of producing and distributing country-made firearms.
SP Metropolis Kumar Ranvijay Singh with the arrested accused. (HT PHOTO)
A big cache of weapons, ammunition, and instruments used to provide arms, together with, 5 country-made pistols, 2 partially assembled pistols, 54 stay cartridges, 1,200 cartridge primers, 2 kilograms of gunpowder, one stay bomb, a number of instruments and gear used for weapon manufacturing have been recovered from their possession.
A joint workforce of native police, surveillance cell and particular operation group, had been monitoring the gang’s actions for a while. Appearing on an intelligence, the workforce raided a number of areas, and arrested the important thing gang members.
Superintendent of police (SP) Metropolis Kumar Ranvijay Singh mentioned, “The racket was running at one of the accused Zakir’s house, where he, along with Idrees and Rizwan, was engaged in assembling country-made pistols. Another member, Javed, used to make cartridges at his own residence. The finished weapons and ammunition were then distributed across Moradabad and other parts of the region by four other members of the gang —Ankit, Arun, Anshuman, and Tushar.”
Kumar mentioned that every pistol was being bought for about ₹5,000. The gang had established a well-organized provide chain spanning throughout varied districts within the area. The arrested accused have been booked underneath the sections of the Arms Act and Explosive Substances Act.