As expected, the city police on Thursday established that gunrunners from neighbouring Bihar and Jharkhand States are supplying huge quantities of illegal arms & ammunitions to Odisha.
The Cuttack Commissionerate police claimed that they arrested two gunrunners, including a minor boy, from Bihar from the Chahata area of the city on Wednesday night.
Speaking to reporters here, City Police Commissioner RK Sharma said a team of city police raided a hideout under the Bidanasi police station and arrested a youth from Bihar along with a city lad and seized three pistols and six live bullets from their possession.
Sharma said the Bihari youth was trying to sell the arms & ammunitions to prospective buyers in the city and each pistol and two bullets were up for sale at a cost ranging from Rs 37,000 to Rs 45,000. Investigations in the case are on, the police said, adding that arrests of more persons in the case cannot be
ruled out.