3 gunrunners in Crime Branch net

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3 gunrunners in Crime Branch net

Monday, 23 September 2019 | Staff Reporter | Bhopal

The Bhopal Crime Branch nabbed three miscreants who were engaged in illegal business of weapons and recovered five country-made pistols and four live cartridges from their possession at Jehangirabad on Saturday.

Acting on a tip off three miscreants were nabbed behind veterinary hospital and when they were searched five country made pistol and four live cartridge was recovered from their possession.

The three nabbed accused were identified as Salman(25), Imran Menon (24) and Neelesh alias Niresh (26).

Salman runs business, Imran works as driver while Neelesh works with a private company.

Neelesh has been booked for half a dozen crimes by TT Nagar police. The police have registered a case under section arms 25 and 27 of the Arms Act. The accused have been booked for serious crimes in the past.  More crimes would be confessed in the further investigation and the source and customers which the accused used to sell the weapons would be searched in the further questioning of the nabbed miscreants.

Nabbed accused revealed that Salman is fond of carrying fire arms and deals in fire arms. Crime branch received information that Salman along with two of his aides would deliver fire arms behind the Veterinary hospital in Jehangirabad area.

The fire arms were bought from Kasim around 2 years ago and it was decided that money after selling the firearms would be distributed equally but Kasim died around 7 months ago and they were still in search for buyers and deal was struck and fire arms were scheduled to deliver in the night on Saturday.

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