Police today claimed to have unearthed an illegal arms factory with the arrest of two persons.
"Acting on a tip-off, we raided a place in Gharava village, 10 km from the Datia district headquarters, and seized 18 country-made pistols and ten live cartridges of .315 bore among others things. Besides, we recovered raw material used in weapon-making," Superintendent of Police Mayank Awasthi said.
"We arrested Mukesh Kewat and Madan Dhimar, both residents of Shivpuri, who ran this illegal arm manufacturing factory," he added.
They sold weapons and ammunition in Gwalior, Shivpuri, Bhind and Datia districts of Madhya Pradesh and Jhansi and Lalitpur districts of Uttar Pradesh, the SP added.
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