Two illegal firearms factories busted near Kolkata
Kolkata, Aug 8 (IBNS): Kolkata Police's Special Task Force (STF) on Wednesday unearthed two illegal firearms manufacturing units at Agarpara and Kamarhati areas in Kolkata's neighbouring North 24 Parganas district of West Bengal, officials said.
Acting on tip off, STF officials and local police raided a house at Agarpara in the morning and another location at Kamarhati in late evening and busted the firearms factories.
Police seized several semi-finished country-made 6mm, 7mm and 9mm pistols, few lathe machines, milling machines and drilling machines from the locations.
"On Monday night, we arrested two persons, Md. Asfaque Ahmed and Md. Aslam who are the residents of Sahibganj in Jharkhand and Bihar's Munger respectively, from Kolkata's Rabindra Sarani area and after quizzing them, we came to know about the illegal firearms factories," a STF official told IBNS.
Earlier on July 30, STF busted another illegal firearms factory at Kankinara area in the same district and arrested nine persons in connection with the case.
(Reporting by Deepayan Sinha)
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