Overview
- Meerut police, which raided a rented house in Alipur on Sunday after a tip, uncovered a concealed workshop in the basement.
- Officers found the entrance hidden under a double bed that covered a passage to a mini factory set up with tools and raw material.
- Investigators seized multiple completed and semi-finished pistols along with magazines, barrels, machining tools, three cars, and seven phones.
- Police arrested 11 suspects, produced them in court, and sent them to jail the same day, according to SSP Avinash Pandey.
- The alleged kingpin, Rahimuddin, has been declared wanted, and police say interrogations point to sales of over 150 pistols at ₹30,000–₹35,000 each, prompting alerts to nearby districts and a search for buyers.