Kolkata, Feb 10 || Police have arrested a Bihar-based arms smuggler from the Kasba area in Kolkata and seized firearms and cartridges from his possession.
The arrested person has been identified as Mohammad Ishtiaq, 38, a resident of Bihar.
The police said that the arrest was made based on inputs that several illegal firearms and ammunition were about to enter the city from the Bihar-Jharkhand region.
"Our source network in Bihar and Kolkata quickly became active. After examining all the information, a resident of Gaya, Bihar, came up on our radar, and we started keeping a special eye on his movements," said a senior officer of Kolkata Police.
It was assumed that this person might enter the city with firearms and ammunition by taking a night bus from Gaya to Kolkata, then try to reach his destination by taking an auto or a yellow taxi.
Based on this, several teams of the anti-rowdy section started surveillance in plain clothes at the Rashbehari Connector in Kasba Police Station area in south Kolkata since Monday morning.