Yet another racket involving policemen was busted by the sleuths of the Special Task Force(STF) when they arrested three persons, including two police personnel, in Farukkabad on Tuesday evening. The held miscreants were allegedly supplying cartridges of prohibited bore to criminals. According to SSP STF (Amit Pathak), cops of the elite force had acted on a tip-off on Tuesday evening when they arrested constable armourer, Rajnish Kumar Pandey posted in Aligarh and constable Anuj Kumar Verma posted at Fatehgarh along with one Prashant Kumar Misra. STF also recovered 120 cartridges of .38 bore, 29 of .303 bore with five charger clips, Rs 60 thousand in cash and four mobile phones.
During interrogation, Pandey disclosed before the STF team that he was in contact with about 10 armourers, some dismissed or suspended, with their help he used to sell the cartridges,to the members of listed gang. He had supplied cartridges to Anuj twice in the past and had met him again for the same when the arrests were made. A case has been registered and further investigations were on. It may be mentioned here that earlier on also similar gangs involving armourer and police personnel were busted in Deoria, Gazipur and some other Eastern Districts of the State. In those cases, several thousand cartridges of the police department had been sold to conduits of gangs involved in naxalite activities.