Shahjehanabad police have arrested a 35-year old man from Safia College area late Thursday night, on the charge of illegally possessing a country-made pistol and two live cartridges.
According to Hanumanganj police, acting on a tip off regarding a man carrying country made pistol and as the search was on for the accused a country made pistol and two cartridges were recovered.
The accused was identified as Shakeel Ahmed a resident of Safia College. Police were successful as they nabbed the accused before he could commit crime.
Police claimed that Shakeel tried to escape after spotting the police but was chased and nabbed.
Hanumanganj police have told that the accused has no past criminal records with the Shahjehanbad police but was earlier booked by the Talaiya police.
The circumstantial evidences suggest that the accused would have committed crime using the weapons but was nabbed before he could commit crime. It would be investigated that the accused was having the weapons with the intention to commit crime or was he involved in the illegal weapon trading nexus working in the city.
A case under Section 25 and 27 of the Arms Act was registered by the police against Shakeel.
Accused was nabbed at around 10 pm with the weapons. The police have started to trace more details of the accused which could help in the further investigation.
Police said that the possibility of the accused carrying the weapons to deliver to the customer could not be ruled out and after he was nabbed the customer might have escaped. All the possible angles would be investigated, said the police.