The Madhya Pradesh Special Task Force (MPSTF) has successfully nabbed a miscreant involved in manufacturing weapons illegally on large scale in Khargone.
The MPSTF was collecting information of illegal weapon manufacturing across the State during which it was found that Signur village has become a manufacturing hub of illegal weapons and they were transported across the State for delivering to different customers.
The information on manufacturing of pistols on large scale was revealed after Vidyaram Gadariya of Morena was nabbed and 11 pistols were seized from his possession on September 20, 2015 and during the investigation Gadariya had accepted that the weapons were provided to him by lakhan Singh alias Fauji.
During the investigation lakhan confessed that he is involved in the illegal trade of weapons since 2006 and has sold more than 150 country made pistols in different cities of the State.
lakhan has worked for the force and was aware that he might be caught for manufacturing the weapons illegally he used others as mediators who dealt on his behalf and he also used different bank accounts of different people for transactions of the money earned in the deals finalised by the mediators.
The MPSTF has started further investigation regarding the customers who used to buy weapons in huge numbers from the accused which could help in unearthing the nexus working behind the manufacturing and dealing of illegal weapons across the State and in other States.
lakhan has worked for BSF for years and later left the job and started to expand their illegal manufacturing of country made pistols.