Five miscreants were held with arms and ammunition at Shahpura area on Saturday and four country made pistols, eight cartridges and two sharp edge weapons were recovered from their possession.
According to the police acting, on a tip-off regarding illegal trading of weapons police teams were formed and conducted search of vehicles. During the search the police team found Shashikaran Patel (22) and recovered one country made pistol and three live cartridges.When he was questioned by the police details of other miscreants who are involved in nexus of illegal trade of weapons was provided.Based on the information four miscreants were nabbed and recovered a good quantity of weapons.
The nabbed miscreants were identified as Dinesh Sen (24), Rajendra Singh (34), Munshilal Rajput (20) and Sunil Sanvale alais Sittu (19).Police have recovered one revolver and three live cartridges from Dinesh, one country made pistol from Rajendra Singh and one sharp edged each weapon from Munshilal and Sunil.The main accused Shashikaran Patel alias Pintu confessed that they used to bring weapons from Kanpur and Datia region and would sell those weapons across the state. They also used to sell the weapons in other big cities.
Police have started working on unearthing the interstate gang dealing in illegal trade of weapons. More miscreants and weapons would be recovered in the investigation claimed the police. Shashikaran, Rajendra and Sunil are residents of Shahpura and have been booked earlier for several crimes in the area and nearby areas.