Youth carrying eight pistols, 9 magazines lands in police net in Mohali
Tribune News Service
Mohali, June 8
The police arrested a Muzaffarnagar native with eight country-made pistols and nine magazines near the Sante Majra village bus stand on Sunday.
The 24-year-old suspect, Mohd Sharukh, was carrying eight country-made pistols and nine magazines in his bag at the time of arrest, said the police.
The police said a case of theft was already registered against him at the Muzaffarnagar police station. He was imprisoned for six months in the Muzaffarnagar jail in the theft case.
The police said the illegal arms supplier earlier used to work as an electrician in his village and get a monthly salary of Rs10,000. In the past, he had worked with building contractors in UP, Bihar, Gujarat and Punjab.
The police said further interrogation of the suspect was underway so as to reveal the particulars about the weapons he had been supplying elsewhere so that other people involved in this case could also be traced.
A case under Sections 25, 54 and 59 of the Arms Act was registered against the suspect at the Sadar Kharar police station on June 6. The suspect was produced before a court today, which remanded him in three-day police custody.
