Two arrested for smuggling illegal firearms from MP

Prayagraj: Two men were arrested on Saturday for allegedly smuggling country-made weapons procured from Khandwa in Madhya Pradesh to Uttar Pradesh and Mumbai. The accused Rajendra Nishad and Bheem Shankar Pathak were residents of Jhunsi and Meja respectively and, were arrested by a team of Ghoorpur police and Special Operations Group.
They were arrested near a well-known roadside eatery in Ghoorpur while the two were riding on a motorcycle after the police were tipped off about their whereabouts.
Twelve country-made handguns, a pistol, seven live cartridges and a motorcycle were recovered from the two, said SP (trans-Yamuna) Saurabh Dixit.
Police said that the two had been arrested earlier by the UP STF on charges of weapon smuggling. “During interrogation, the two said that they used to procure the weapons from Khandwa at cheap rates and then sell them in Prayagraj at a price ranging between Rs 5,000 and Rs 10,000 each. The same weapons were sold in Mumbai for a price as high as Rs 40,000. They used to board a bus in Khandwa with the illegal weapons and reach Rewa. From there they used to come to Prayagraj on a motorcycle while hiding the weapons in the dickey,” he said.