A cache of arms was recovered from Dhanbad railway station while they were being smuggled in a bag to Munger in Bihar on Saturday late night. The Railway Police arrested a person named Shyam Kumar Gupta and recovered 18 pistols and 36 magazines from his bag.
The railway police is interrogating Gupta after taking him in custody here on Saturday night, said SRP Deepak Sinha.
Based on secret information received by Dhanbad Railway Police, Railway Superintendent of Police sent a police team headed by Deputy Superintendent of Police, and started surprise checking at Dhanbad station. In which, on the basis of suspicion, two boys stood in suspicious condition near the compartment number B1 of Ganga Damodar Express.
The police stopped on the basis of suspicion when the boys said that there was liquor in the bag.
The police suspected it and picked up the bag. One of the boys managed to escape by taking advantage of the crowd, but the other was Shyam Gupta, 35 years old resident of Ashok Gupta Refugee Colony, East Sarai Police Station of the Munger district caught by the police. When the police checked the entire bag, a black colored bag including a Nokia mobile SIM of eighteen indigenously manufactured pistol and 36 magazines and, cash amount of Rs 1000 were recovered.
Police recovered PAN card and Aadhaar card from the youth, the Rail Superintendent of Police Deepak Sinha said that the Deputy Superintendent of Police, Sanjeev Kumar Besra, First Assistant Under Inspector Arvind Singh, Railway Station, Dhanbad, Assistant Under Inspector Ravindra Nath Singh, Assistant Under Inspector Ajay Kumar Havildar Suresh Yadav Havildar Mantu Tigga and constable 347 Kuldeep Kumar were mainly involved. Superintendent of Police Rail said that all the cops involved in the recovery will be rewarded.