A 30-year-old man who was wanted in illegal trade of firearms and carried a reward of Rs 5,000 on his head was nabbed by crime branch Bhopal near Aishbagh railway crossing on Tuesday; five miscreants were booked after they were found involved in illegal trade.
According to the police, Sunderlal Gurjar of Rajgarh was absconding in the illegal trade firearms nexus. Four miscreants have been nabbed and one of the accused who was absconding was nabbed on Tuesday. The accused used to work as farmer and after bearing loss in the past few years he started illegal trade of firearms.
Notably, on February 5 crime branch police Bhopal had nabbed three miscreants involved in illegal selling of firearms and recovered five guns from Jathkhedi. The three were identified as Ravi Verma, Meharbaan Rajput and Dinesh Verma . They miscreants used to bring guns from Khargone and were involved in the crime for the past two years with the help of Rakesh Gaur who used to provide the firearms.
The accused used to purchase the arms from Khargone district and would sell the arms at higher price. They would earn Rs 5000 to Rs 10000 on a gun.
Meanwhile, a 23-year-old man who used to work with a courier company at Indrapuri went missing with 10 packets of electronic goods worth Rs 1.7 lakh was nabbed by Piplani police on Tuesday and recovered the goods.
According to the police the accused Prateek Singh was nabbed and electronic goods stolen from e-com Courier Company.
Police said that three months ago 10 packets having gold and silver jewelry, one gold coin, five mobile phones, two tablet computers and one hard disc were stolen from the e-com e-com Courier Company branch in Indrapuri.