Two arrested with pistols

BHUBANESWAR: Commissionerate Police on Sunday arrested two persons under the Arms Act and recovered two country made pistols along with four live ammunitions from them. The miscreants were identified as Pramod Mangaraj and Parikshita Pradhan, both natives of Pipili. Commissionerate Police’s Quick Action Team (QAT) received an information that two miscreants had come to the Capital City for selling guns and ammunitions. Acting on the tip-off, QAT personnel and Nayapalli police nabbed Pramod Mangaraj from Jaydev Vihar while he was going to deliver a country made pistol to a person in Ghatikia.

On questioning, the cops found that one of Pramod’s associates had also come to the city along with him for selling another country made pistol in Chandrasekharpur. Later, Pramod’s associate Parikshita was nabbed and a pistol recovered from him. According to police, the miscreants had procured the country made pistols from Munger in Bihar at a cost of over `10, 000 each and planned to sell each weapon for `60,000.

Sources said one of the miscreants was earlier arrested for his involvement in a similar case.
Meanwhile, Nayapalli police and Chandrasekharpur police have registered separate cases against Pramod and Parikshita under Section 25 of the Arms Act.