Overview
- A joint team of Kolkata Police STF, Bihar STF and Madhusudanpur police raided a house in Rahamatbagh, Bhagalpur, acting on intelligence inputs.
- Officers seized 20 semi-finished 7.65 mm pistols, eight pistol barrels and machining equipment including a lathe, milling machines and grinders.
- Five suspects, including a co-owner and four skilled arms makers, were detained and are being questioned by police.
- The operation was concealed inside a house registered to Md. Nasir Ansari, using a spinning-mill setup as cover for the manufacturing unit.
- An FIR under the Arms Act and relevant BNS sections has been filed, follow-up raids are underway to find absconders and trace the supply chain, and local police have named absconding renter M. Faisal as a person of interest.