With general election round the corner, the police conducted raids in Amroha and Agra district and recovered huge semi-finished country made pistols and liquor respectively from the districts.
A team of Bachrayun police station raided in a sugarcane field Mudakhadra village and nabbed one Rajesh of Hapur district on the charges of running an arm manufacturing unit. His aide escaped the scene. He owned up his crime and disclosed that he had taken 20 bigha of land on contract to run the unit. The cops recovered 8 country made pistols, huge quantity of semi-finished arms and its parts and equipment used in manufacturing the arms.
Though the police claimed it a routine recovery of the arms, the sources disclosed that possibility of supply of arms to mafias close to political persons could not be ruled out.
In Agra, a team of Dauki police team raided Mehra Naharganj and recovered 230 liter of country made liquor, 12 empty bottles, wrappers and other articles. The cops arrested three persons named as Dalchandra, Sonu and Rajesh, all of Mehra Naharganj village. The source said the recovered liquor was being prepared to distribute it among the voters to entice then for voting. The police did not comment on this.