Bangalore:The Bangalore Police on Sunday claimed to have cracked an inter-state arms racket with the arrest of arrested three persons alleged for their involvement in it.
The police suspect that might have links in the other parts of the country also.
City Police Commissioner, Shankar Bidari, said: "These arms with foreign markings
were manufactured in an illicit factory, operated somewhere in northern India
and were supplied to anti-social and anti-nation elements in many parts of the
country." "The police have recovered sophisticated firearms bear the marks of
foreign manufacturers," Bidari added. "In this connection we have arrested three
persons and recovered four revolvers of 0.35 bore, one 0.9 mm pistol and 32 live
cartridges worth 800 thousands rupees," he further added. Bidari has requested
the State Police chief to hand over the case to the Central Bureau of Investigation
as the police suspect the involvement of larger nation wide racket in it. "The
investigation in this requires to be done in various states of the country; therefore
we are proposing to handover this case to CBI (Central Bureau of Investigation)
so that thorough and prompt investigation is conducted and the entire racket is
brought to book," Bidari felt.
