Munger News A special raid operation was conducted in Tikarapur Diara area of Mufassil police station area on Thursday morning against illegal arms manufacturing. During this period, the police busted five minigun factories and arrested four people making weapons. In the raid, the police have recovered three semi-finished pistols, five cartridges and a huge quantity of weapon making equipment and parts.
It is said that Mofussil police station received information that illegal weapons are being manufactured by operating a minigun factory on a large scale in Tikarampur Diara area. Weapons are being smuggled. A team was formed under the leadership of SDPO Sadar Rajesh Kumar, Probationary Superintendent of Police cum Mufassil Police Station Head Shailendra Singh, which reached Tikarapur Diara on Wednesday night itself. Early on Thursday morning, the police station and STF Tikarampur team surrounded a corn field and started a raid, where the work of making weapons was going on.
Seeing the police, the weapon maker and the kingpin started running away, but the police chased them away and arrested them. When the police conducted a search operation in the corn field, they recovered a huge amount of weapon making equipment and parts including 3 semi-finished pistols, five cartridges, 5 base machines, 2 drill machines, 2 finished magazines. Police have arrested arms smuggler Rajaram Yadav, son of Vijay Yadav, resident of Tikarampur, Mo Mubarak, son of Mo Rehman, resident of Mirzapur Bardah, Bittu Kumar and Pintu Kumar, residents of Tikarapur Bihari Marar Tola.
Rajaram is the kingpin, there was a demand from West Bengal
Probationary Superintendent of Police cum Police Station Head Shailendra Singh said that the arrested Rajaram Yadav is the kingpin. There was a demand for weapons from West Bengal and other states, to fulfill which weapons were being manufactured secretly in the corn fields. He told that these people supply weapons to different states of the country. The arrested kingpin has revealed the names of the artisans and arms smugglers involved in this.
The police have started investigation regarding this. He said that in view of the Lok Sabha elections, a continuous campaign is being run to tighten the noose on arms manufacturing and smuggling. The arrested kingpin and artisans have old criminal history. The arrested arms smugglers have been sent to jail in judicial custody after registering an FIR in the Mofussil police station.