BARUIPUR (WB): (PTI) An illegal arms factory was busted in West Bengal‘s South 24 Parganas district and one person was arrested, police said on Wednesday.
Eight one-shutter guns, two rifles and equipment for making arms, including a polish machine, drilling machine, saw, iron plates and pipes, were seized as the factory, operated out of a two-room house in Kashipur’s Kamaria village in Jaynagar police station area, was busted, they said.
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Personnel of the Baruipur Police’s Special Operations Group (SOG) contacted the accused, identified as Rahmatulla Shiekh, posing as buyers.
They planned a meeting around 6 pm on Tuesday in the Maida area of Jaynagar, and when he came for it, he was arrested, police said.
After the arrest, the factory was busted. A pond behind the two-room house was used to hide the arms, they said.
Police said Shiekh, a big arms dealer in the area, was being interrogated, and efforts were on to identify his associates.
