Hyderabad: The Rachakonda Police Special Operations Team, along with the Meerpet police, nabbed two interstate arms dealers from Bihar here on Saturday and seized two pistols, six live rounds, one extra magazine and two mobile phones from their possession.
The arrested persons were identified as Arun Yadav (30) and Shankar Yadav (45), while one suspect, Mithilesh Kumar, was absconding. All three hail from Bihar. Police said Arun Yadav came to the city in January and was working as a watchman at a star hotel here. Shankar Yadav was working at a bar in Meerpet.
The two, natives of Munger district of Bihar, were nabbed at Almasguda Kaman under the Meerpet police station limits on charges of illegal possession of firearms and ammunition. “They procured firearms from their native villages at lower costs and sold them here in the city at higher prices,” said G. Sudheer Babu, Additional Commissioner of Police, Rachakonda.
“Arun Yadav and Shankar Yadav were promised of firearms by Mithilesh Kumar, a firearms dealer, and they recently procured two pistols for Rs.20,000 each, six live rounds and an empty magazine from him,” Sudheer Babu said. Officials said the two returned to Hyderabad by concealing the weapons in their luggage for selling them to prospective customers here for about Rs 1 lakh each. (NSS)
