Amidst high-voltage campaigning of different police parties for the election of Agartala Municipal Corporation (AMC), the city police in a significant success has manage to arrested three inter-state arms smugglers along with three sophisticated pistols and huge cache of arms and ammunition from the busiest Battala area of Agartala on Wednesday evening.
Police sources said that based on credible intelligence inputs over arms dealing with involvement of smugglers from other parts of the country and as per the information, Agartala city police under West Agartala police station laid a trap at the TRTC complex of Battala near Bhutia market on Wednesday evening on plain clothes.
SDPO(Sadar) Pannalal Sen said that Based on the information from intelligence wing, police personnel from West Agartala police station and Battala Town Outpost laid the trap in that specific area of Battala, where suspected arms dealers would deliver their consignment to some arms smugglers of Agartala.
At about 7 PM of the Wednesday evening, the plain cloth police personnel noticed the suspected movements of three persons and they cordoned off the entire area. Sensing the presence of police personnel, suspected arms smugglers tried to escape from the spot, but alert police personnel detained them.
Later, in presence of an Executive Magistrate, police started a search on these two suspected men and in the course of search , police recovered three sophisticated Italy made pistols along with 50 live rounds of 7.65 mm and six magazines under their possessions.
SDPO said that arrested two arms smugglers are from Bihar state and they had to deliver their consignment in the Battala area to some suspected arms smugglers.
He said that at the present stage of preliminary investigation, police cannot share any other information over these inter-state arms smuggling networks. Police also seized two mobile sets under their possessions.