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Arms held in Guwahati

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Press Trust of India Guwahati

The arms recovered included a AK-47 rifle, grenade launcher, 400 rounds of bullets, a US-made .32 Berreta pistol, 25 light bomb shells and 500 round of ammunition last night, police said today.

Police arrested four GNLA cadres including Pinto Marak who is the brother-in-law of the outfit's Commander-in-Chief Sohan d Shira. Besides, two others Nagaland-based arms smugglers were also apprehended with them.

The arms were brought from Manipur to Assam and was intended to be taken to GNLA camps in Meghalaya, police said.

  

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First Published: Jun 03 2012 | 1:05 PM IST

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