Police arrested three arms smugglers on the NH-203 at Garage Chhak here and forwarded them to court on Wednesday.
The three were identified as Manojit (21) of Sundarpada and Sidhartha Jena (25) and Sidhant Jena, both are brothers, of Brahmeswar Patna at Badgad of Khurdha district. The siblings are natives of Anandapur in Keonjhar district.
While conducting MV checking, the police team led by ASI A Choudhury intercepted found the three persons coming from Samatarapur towards Kalpana Square in a Pulsar. As the trio could not produce any documents of the vehicle, they were thoroughly searched by the police team.
The cops also seized a country-made pistol, two live ammunitions, two mobile phones, a pulsar and two scooties from their possession. During interrogation, the trio confessed that they brought the firearms from one person of Delang and were taking the same
to Bhubaneswar for selling.
They were dealing with illegal firearms by using the two scooties, police said.