The arms were seized on the basis of information provided by a jailed Lashkar-e-Taiba commander, who perished during an encounter at the site where the consignment was found...
The city traffic police used to carry arms till 2011, the practice was discontinued as a precaution following incidents of police’s arms being looted by suspected CPI Maoist cadres in districts...
After the Bogtui carnage, Mamata Banerjee had instructed to seize illegal firearms, crude bombs and other similar items to curb crime across the state...