A man involved in manufacturing and selling illegal firearms and carrying a reward of Rs10,000 over his head was nabbed by the Special Task Force (STF) from Dhar on Friday.
Also, the STF recovered six country-made pistols and one revolver from Jagat Singh Sikligar, accused of manufacturing and selling illegal firearms.
The accused has been booked for seven cases of assault, possession of illegal arms and planning dacoity by Manawar police in Dhar district.
Anti Terrorist Squad (ATS) Maharashtra police was searching for Jagat for the past five years. He was wanted in two cases in which the arms were supplied by him.
The accused was active in Rajasthan, Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh and Delhi.
Jagat was also wanted in a case of illegal possession of arms in which Kishan Pardeshi was nabbed with a rifle in lonawala in Pune district of Maharashtra which was sold by Jagat at Rs 1.2 lakh.
GRP Indore had declared a reward of Rs 10,000 on Jagat after two persons in different cases of carrying two country made pistols were nabbed and during the investigation they confessed that arms were sold by Jagat.
In the investigation by the STF it was found that the illegal fire arms manufacturing, selling and use was prevalent in 15 districts of the State which are Khargone, Barwani, Burhanpur, Dhar, Khandwa, Indore, Gwalior, Bhind, Morena, Datia, Shivpuri, Guna, Chhatarpur, Jabalpur and Bhopal.
It is understood that Sikligar community inhabiting western region of the State like Khargone, Dhar, Burhanpur, Barwani are involved in illegal firearms manufacturing, selling. At small scale fire arms manufacturing was also found in Gwalior, Bhind, Morena, Shivpuri, Datia, Chhatarpur districts.