Buxar: Buxar police busted an alleged illegal gun-manufacturing unit and arrested two men during a raid at a house in Vasudeva village on Thursday, recovering firearms, ammunition and equipment allegedly used to make weapons.In a press release issued by the Buxar superintendent of police on Friday, police received information on Oct 22 that Bigan Bind, a resident of Bind Toli in Vasudeva village, was allegedly involved in the illegal arms trade from his house.Following the tip-off, the SP formed a special team under Dumraon sub-divisional police officer Bhaskar Ranjan to verify the information and conduct raids.Police said the team arrested Bigan Bind and Santosh Sharma and seized two country-made pistols, a single-barrel gun, a semi-finished country-made pistol, one empty cartridge and six live cartridges.The team also recovered 22 grams of a substance suspected to be ganja and tools and equipment, including chisels, iron pliers, hammers, files, semi-finished barrels, trimmers, an air blower, and 13 small and large springs.The arrested men were identified as Bigan Bind, son of late Chhabila Bind and a resident of Vasudeva village, and Santosh Sharma, son of late Ramdhani Sharma and a resident of Navanagar under the same police station of the district.The raid was conducted by a team comprising Dumraon SDPO Bhaskar Ranjan, circle inspector Arvind Kumar, DIU in-charge sub-inspector Sudhir Kumar, Vasudeva SHO Anil Kumar Paswan, members of the Buxar District Intelligence Unit and armed personnel of Vasudeva police station.
