Kolkata Police arrest 5 men from Uttar Pradesh with illegal firearms
The Hindu
Kolkata Police STF arrests five men from UP with illegal firearms, triggering panic; second seizure in two months.
A Kolkata Police Special Task Force (STF) on Monday (January 27, 2025) evening nabbed five men from Uttar Pradesh with illegal firearms from the Baithakkhana area in Sealdah, Kolkata. This was the second seizure of illegal arms from the same locality in the past two months.
The Kolkata Police feared that the arrested men were “planning to commit a crime in the city”. As the news spread, the arrest triggered panic among locals. A case was registered at the STF Police Station, and the suspects, Rahul Yadav, Shivshankar Yadav, Aditya Maurya, Devank Gupta, and Rukesh Sahani, were produced at the Bankshall Court in Kolkata on Tuesday, January 27, 2025.
Speaking about the arrests, Kolkata Commissioner of Police Manoj Kumar Verma said, “Intelligence agency tasks are not a one-day process. We had reports, had surveillance on the suspects, and when the information matured, we arrested them.”
Responding to a question about whether criminals from outside the State were operating in West Bengal and why their movement could not be restricted, Mr. Verma said that inter-State movement was massive in all State but who among them were criminals was a matter of intelligence agencies and they were constantly working on it.
Rupesh Kumar, Joint Commissioner of Police of Crime, said that the suspects were from various parts of Uttar Pradesh and had no valid documents for the firearms. “We have mailed the local police from U.P. and requested further details on previous case records and profiles of the suspects. What crimes they had planned to commit is not clear yet,” he added.
As per the preliminary investigation, the suspects had been in the city for the past two days and were put up in a local lodge.
Police seized two firearms — a 7mm semi-automatic and another single shot, and 15 rounds of live ammunition.
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