The Bondhamunda police arrested Sandhir Kumar Singh alias Santu, a railway employee at Sector C area here, on Tuesday for keeping arms and ammunitions at his residence.
According to Rourkela DSP Ramesh Panigrahi, basing on a tip-off, the police conducted a raid under the leadership of Bondhamunda IIC SK Das at Singh’s residence and recovered a cache of arms including one country made revolver, one 9MM auto pistol, one batman brand country made fire arm, five live 9MM ammunition, two magazines, one gupti, seven knives, three swords, one Bhujali, besides Rs 2.08 lakh in cash, nine ATM cards, two cheque books, stamp papers of different people, one laptop, one Honda Activa and one Bajaj Pulsar bike from his possession. From preliminary investigation, it was revealed that Santu was involved in gun and other ammunition peddling for a long time. Usually, he imported them from nearby Jharkhand and sold them here. The police are also in the lookout for two associates of Santu.
DSP Panigrahi informed that the police were investigating if Santu was involved in railway tender fixing.
It may be mentioned here that three cases were already lodged earlier against Santu.