Lucknow. On the one hand, while CM Yogi Adityanath is participating in the ‘Chintan Shivir’ called by the Union Home Minister on internal security in Faridabad, Delhi-NCR, on the other hand, on the instructions of the Chief Minister, the UP Police is taking swift action against criminals and illegal arms smugglers in the state. . In this sequence, on Friday, UP ATS busted a gang of inter-state smugglers of illegal arms in a joint operation with Azamgarh Police. A large quantity of manufactured, semi-manufactured illegal arms as well as cartridges and shell cartridges, semi-finished pen-guns and weapon making items were recovered from them.
Action based on confidential information
According to UP ATS, confidential information was received that two persons from Azamgarh along with their other associates are involved in manufacturing and smuggling of illegal arms. The information was developed through physical and electronic surveillance. It came to be known that Aftab Alam son Firoz Alam resident of Falahnagar, Bilariaganj district of police station Azamgarh and Mainuddin Sheikh son of Sammu Ahmed resident of village and post Patila Gauspur, police station Bilariaganj, district Azamgarh, manufacturing illegal weapons and selling them illegally by obtaining cartridges from gun house. and involved in smuggling. After this, UP ATS took joint action with Azamgarh Police and arrested both of them.
Smuggling used to happen in different areas of Purvanchal
Interrogation has revealed that Aftab Alam has been jailed twice in the past and is involved in illegal arms manufacturing and smuggling for the past several years. This was to smuggle illegal arms and cartridges etc. from Mainuddin Sheikh. Mainuddin Shaikh used to smuggle illegal arms and cartridges from Gun House in Azamgarh for a long time and had set up a factory to make arms on his agricultural land in Ibrahimpur village near Kudhhi Dhala in Devara area of district Azamgarh. Due to the flood, he was currently operating this factory from his house.
Nepal, Pakistan and Dubai connection also found
During interrogation it was also revealed that the weapons manufactured in the factory were smuggled to different areas of Purvanchal through Aftab Alam and the operator of Qazi Gun House Asifganj Pandey Bazar Road Azamgarh, Syed Qazi Arshad. Both of them used to get the cartridges illegally from the gun house and supply them as per the demand. The Nepal, Pakistan and Dubai connections of the accused have also been received.
filed suit
A case has been registered in the police station Bilariaganj, district Azamgarh after the recovery of a large quantity of manufactured, semi-manufactured illegal arms, cartridges, hollow cartridges, semi-made pen guns (state-of-the-art) and weapons making items and mobiles on the spot of Aftab Alam and Mainuddin Sheikh. .
This item was found
One pistol .9 mm, one pistol .22 mm, one DBBL gun, one SBBL gun, 8 airguns, two gun 12 bore, one gun .32 bore, two semi-finished pen guns, one pistol semi-finished Maya magazine, four semi-finished carbine barrels, Two semi-finished revolvers, two semi-finished shotguns, three magazines 9 mm, one magazine .22 mm, one pistol magazine, 10 live cartridges 9 mm, 51 live cartridges 12 bore, 323 fired cartridges 12 bore, one fired cartridge .315 bore, 6 black Live cartridges .22 bore, three fired cartridges .32 bore, 51 air gun shrapnel in an iron box, 54 air shrapnel in a paper box, two telescopes for rifles, three gun butts, 13 gun barrels, seven gun barrels Short cord, spring used in sixty gun, four gun rear with side alignment, one hitting gas lighter, mechanism of one DBBL gun, one revolver revolving ring, one pistol slider with fist, two arcs, one headlamp, one drill machine, one Gun license (in the name of the deceased father of Mainuddin), two bank check books, one debit card, voter ID, PAN card and visiting card of different gun houses.
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