With the arrest of three miscreants, the special task force claimed to have busted a gang of gunrunners.Those arrested were identified as Ram Naresh aka DM, Gulfam Sah and Anuj Kumar, trio of Etah district.
The cops recovered two factory-made rifles, three factory-made double barrel 12 bore, 28 cartridges each of .315 bore, 5 tempered arm license, 5 blank arm license books, five stamps of district magistrates of different districts, three mobile sets and a motorcycle.
The sleuths told that the gang was busted on a tip off. The sleuths told that they got information about a gang which used to purchase arms from authorised shops and then they used to supply it to criminals. On the information, the Bareilly unit of STF was alerted. Subsequently probe revealed that the arm licenses were issued on an address in Etah district and there after the arms were purchased from a shop in Agra district.
The cops got to know that the gang members were to supply arms to some persons and so a trap was laid at Fatehpur crossing in Firozabad district. The cops nabbed trio of the miscreants while other three manage to escape the scene.
The miscreants owned up their crime and disclosed that they used to charge Rs 15,000 to Rs 20,000 for getting an arm license. They disclosed that their chief agent, Santosh Kumar of Sikohabad district, used to trap the prospective customers. Ram Naresh disclosed that he had sold as many as 50 arm licenses issued in fake identity to various customers in the past. The sleuths said the case was under investigation. They said the arms recovered were purchased from Sharma Armoury in Agra and PN Viswas Company in Kanpur.The sleuths disclosed the names of those escaped arrest as Mohammed Javed Ali, Rehmat Ali, Hafiz Sah, all of Etah district.