The crime branch on Friday nabbed three miscreants near Shahjehani Park and recovered three guns from their possession on Thursday.
According to the police, acting on a tip off regarding person carrying country made pistol a team was rushed to the spot and started searching for the miscreant and detained the
miscreant and recovered a country made pistol from his possession.
The miscreant was identified as Jeevan Singh Meena of Awadhpuri area who accepted that he was looking for customer to sell the country made pistol along with two of his accomplice who are outside the park.
Based on the information the two accomplices were detained who were identified as Gopilal alias Guddu Sharma (43) and Rajesh Ahirwar (32) and recovered two country made pistols from their possession.
Jeevan and Gopilal are farmers while Rajesh works with a private firm and holds past criminal record. He was booked for fraud by TT Nagar police around 5-6 years ago.
In the initial investigation the Meena confessed that the three weapons were purchased around a year ago from Mandideep from an unknown person at Rs 8000 and later he sold one of the weapons to Sharma at Rs 6000 and other at Rs 7000 to some other person.
In his confession Meena told the police that he deals in illegal buying and selling of guns while the other two miscreants told that they have enmity in their village and
to maintain their status
and dominance and for extortion of money they use to keep guns.