
Police catch gun-runner trying to sell three pistols
The Hindu
The Cubbon Park police on Tuesday, June 6, arrested a city-based event organiser and recovered three pistols and 99 rounds of live ammunition from him.
The Cubbon Park police on Tuesday, June 6, arrested a city-based event organiser and recovered three pistols and 99 rounds of live ammunition from him.
The accused, Niraj Joseph , a native of Kerala and working for an event management company in the city, told the police that he had sourced the weapons from his contacts from the North-East. The police have taken him into custody and are now trying to ascertain his network .
The accused Joseph was caught by PSI, Ishwar Vannur, while he was waiting in a car for his client to deliver the weapons at the bus stop on Queen’s Road.
The weapons look factory made and investigations are on to ascertain his network, a senior police officer said, adding that the police are also verifying his criminal background.

Former CM B.S. Yediyurappa had challenged the first information report registered on March 14, 2024, on the alleged incident that occurred on February 2, 2024, the chargesheet filed by the Criminal Investigation Department (CID), and the February 28, 2025, order of taking cognisance of offences afresh by the trial court.