The Commissionerate Police’s Particular Crime Unit on Saturday arrested two suspected members of an illegal fingers trafficking community and seized a nice cache of weapons, at the side of a carbine and more than ten semi-automatic pistols. Officers also recovered ammunition, a automobile and several other mobile phones. The two accused are residents of Angul and Dhenkanal districts.
The arrests come amid a rise in firearm-connected incidents across Odisha in fresh months, prompting intensified surveillance and centered operations by law enforcement.
Questions Over Carbine Origin, Wider Network
The seizure of a carbine, a weapon in most cases weak by police, army, safety personnel and rarely Maoist groups, has raised severe questions about how such an arm entered criminal circulation. Investigators are also examining the customer immoral in Odisha and the identity of key operators within the relieve of procurement and distribution, especially since such weapons are on the total manufactured solely towards accredited orders.
Police sources acknowledged the arrested duo are suspected to be middlemen within an even bigger interstate present chain, with the weapons reportedly sourced from manufacturers in Bihar.
11 Firearms Seized in Most up-to-date Operation
Addressing a press briefing, Commissioner S. Dev Datta Singh acknowledged the flexibility has been systematically concentrating on inter-district and interstate gun-running gangs.
“Over the final few months, the Commissionerate Police has intensified its investigation, concentrating on inter-district and inter-articulate gangs to interrupt the provision chain. Now we enjoy achieved substantial success in our crackdown, by which these illegal firearms had been seized,” Singh acknowledged.
“A total of 11 firearms had been recovered as of late, two 9 mm pistols, eight 7.65 mm pistols and one carbine. A automobile and 12 mm live ammunition had been also seized. In the closing two months, now we enjoy got seized 23 such weapons,” he added.
He additional acknowledged that the accused, Sumant Nayak, who has six cases towards him, and Soubhagya Nayak, who has four, had been intercepted on the National Dual carriageway whereas travelling toward Berhampur. The carbine, he clarified, turned into as soon as now not supposed for distribution within Odisha.
Whole Seizures Attain 33 Weapons
With Saturday’s operation, the selection of weapons seized in fresh months has risen to 33, marking a serious leap forward within the police’s efforts to dismantle illegal fingers networks working across the articulate.
