Two persons, who were involved in making illegal firearms for the past four months, were arrested by the Haridwar police on Wednesday. Five country-made guns and equipments were recovered from their possession. These firearms which are easy to procure and can be used by people without any license are widely used by criminals in country-made gun, commonly known as Desi Tamancha or Katta, which is widely used in western part of Uttar Pradesh and Haridwar district.
On receiving information from their informers about illegal firearms being made in rural areas of Bahadrabad, a cop was deployed to monitor the activities. Acting on tip-off, the police nabbed two accused at Dhanori village who were coming by car from Kaliyar area of Roorkee.
Speaking to the Pioneer, SHO Pradeep Bisht of Bahadrabad police station said, “We recovered five Desi Tamanchas from the car and arrested the two riders. We have also recovered equipments which were used for making guns. The accused have been identified as Shakeel who is resident of village Hazaragrant of SIDCUl
police station in Haridwar and Shahzad hails from Barhaut district Bagpat in Uttar Pradesh.”
“We are investigating the matter and more arresting would be done soon in this case. We are examining
the criminal background of the accused as well,” added the SHO.
Mention worthy both the accused were operating from the Asaf Nagar of Kaliyar police station where they had shifted recently from village Hazara grant of SIDCUl police station.