THANE: Two individuals have been arrested with 10 pistols and 40 reside cartridges from Amravati district, about 650 kilometres from here, by means of Thane police's Crime Branch, a senior official mentioned on Monday.
The arrests have been in connection with an Arms Act case registered in May this year in Shil Daigar police station here, Thane police commissioner Vivek Phansalkar mentioned at a press conference Monday.
He mentioned the police received a tip-off that probably the most main accused in the May 2018 case, identified as Mukesh, used to be expected to be arrive at a lodge in Amravati.
Acting on the tip-off, a Crime Branch Unit I staff of Thane police led by means of senior inspector Nitin Thackeray arrived in Amravati on December 29, he mentioned.
While Mukesh controlled to escape the police dragnet, two of his accomplices, identified as Soheb Ishaq Shaikh (21) and Rahim Habib Shaikh (32), have been picked up on December 29, the police commissioner informed journalists.
He mentioned 10 pistols and 40 reside cartridges have been discovered in their possession, price Rs three.10 lakh, adding that a probe had begun to unravel the hands community being operated by means of the accused and their absconding accomplices.
Phansalkar mentioned a number of groups of the Thane police have been lately engaged in nabbing others in the racket, together with main accused Mukesh.
He added that the hands confiscated may have a link to a murder case registered earlier at Narpoli police station in the district's Bhiwandi township.
The arrested duo have been remanded in police custody till January 7 by means of a local courtroom, he added.
An official mentioned initial investigations have printed that the hands may have been procured from Munger, a district in the jap a part of Bihar.
The arrests have been in connection with an Arms Act case registered in May this year in Shil Daigar police station here, Thane police commissioner Vivek Phansalkar mentioned at a press conference Monday.
He mentioned the police received a tip-off that probably the most main accused in the May 2018 case, identified as Mukesh, used to be expected to be arrive at a lodge in Amravati.
Acting on the tip-off, a Crime Branch Unit I staff of Thane police led by means of senior inspector Nitin Thackeray arrived in Amravati on December 29, he mentioned.
While Mukesh controlled to escape the police dragnet, two of his accomplices, identified as Soheb Ishaq Shaikh (21) and Rahim Habib Shaikh (32), have been picked up on December 29, the police commissioner informed journalists.
He mentioned 10 pistols and 40 reside cartridges have been discovered in their possession, price Rs three.10 lakh, adding that a probe had begun to unravel the hands community being operated by means of the accused and their absconding accomplices.
Phansalkar mentioned a number of groups of the Thane police have been lately engaged in nabbing others in the racket, together with main accused Mukesh.
He added that the hands confiscated may have a link to a murder case registered earlier at Narpoli police station in the district's Bhiwandi township.
The arrested duo have been remanded in police custody till January 7 by means of a local courtroom, he added.
An official mentioned initial investigations have printed that the hands may have been procured from Munger, a district in the jap a part of Bihar.
Thane cops arrest 2 from Maharashtra's Amravati, seize 10 pistols
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