Patna: Patna police arrested two more persons on Friday on the charge of being involved in illegal supply of arms from Bihar to Punjab.

The cops had arrested four persons on Thursday from the Jauhari Nivas guesthouse Takth Shri Harmandir Sahib and seized a foreign-made pistol, a country-made pistol, six bullets and some cannabis ( ganja).

All the six arrested persons were on Friday produced in the court of judicial magistrate Sushant Ranjan in Patna City, which remanded them to judicial custody for 14 days.

Preliminary investigations have revealed that four of the six arrested persons had come to Bihar from Punjab to buy arms for the murder of a person in Jalandhar, police sources said. The other two, Samastipur district residents Ajay Kumar Singh and Rahul Kumar, had supplied the illegal weapons to the Punjab residents, the sources added.

The four from Punjab were identified as Jasvinder Singh, Roban Masid, Navdeep Singh and Bachitter Veer Singh.

Chowk police station house officer (SHO) Ashok Kumar Pandey said that one of four arrested Punjab residents, Bachittar Veer Singh, has a criminal record.

Bachittar, the SHO said, was sent to jail five times in criminal cases lodged with Division Number 1 police station of Jalandhar.

Earlier on Friday, explosive experts and the district dog squad carried out a search operation on the premises of the Takth Sri Harmandir Sahib in Patna City.

Patna City additional superintendent of police (ASP) Hari Mohan Shukla said the search operation did not find anything incriminatory or dangerous.

"The search operation was part of the investigation," ASP Shukla told The Telegraph on Friday.