BengalPolls Bengal Polls: Eight guns, 200 bullets seized ahead of 3rd phase
Kolkata/UNI: Police on Friday arrested an alleged underground arms dealer while he was smuggling 8 guns and some 200 bullets from neighbouring Jharkhand into the poll-bound West Bengal.
Following a tip-off, a special task force, in association with Dankuni police station, during frisking at toll plaza in a Kolkata-bound bus from Jharkhand arrested Brij Kishor Tiwary and seized the arms and ammunition from him.
He was carrying 7 one-shot guns, an automatic weapon and 200 bullets.
The accused is a resident of Torla village under Rehela police station under Palamu district of Jharkhand.
Bengal will go for a 3rd phase poll on April 6.
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