Four arrested in another inter-State arms racket

Since January this year, the Bengaluru police have registered six cases of people selling ammunition illegally

The Ashok Nagar police unearthed yet another inter-State arms trafficking racket and arrested four men while they were waiting for their customers. The police recovered two country-made pistols, five rounds of ammunition, one magazine, two bikes and five mobile phones from the gang. After receiving a tip-off, a team went to the location near a cemetery on Hosur Road and nabbed the accused, who have been identified as Sonu Kumar, 32, Sunil Kumar, 32, Irfan Imtiyaz, 26 and Murali Vinod, 47. The accused allegedly confessed to the police that they sourced the weapons from their contact, one Lutan Singh, who operates out of Sultanganj in Bihar. “All four accused have been booked under the Arms Act, 1959, and have been taken into custody. We are investigating their trade network,” said a police officer.