Parmesh S Jain
The East Division police of Banaswadi police arrested a 27-year-old real estate broker who in turned indulged in gun selling racket and recovered two country made pistols and 4 live rounds of ammunition from him.
The accused has been identified as,Shakeel Ahmed.
Senior officer told media persons,The Banaswadi police inspector, Sathish HS, received a credible information from their reliable inputs that some person is involved in smuggling gun and selling it to gangsters and rowdy elements.
Based on reliable inputs a special team was pressed into action to nab the gun seller the team was in search of gun seller on 19th morning when the crime team was on rounds their inputs passed a information that some person is moving suspiciously near Banaswadi railway station road.
Immediately inspector and team rushed to the spot and surrounded the area and when they approached to the suspect the team questioned him to whom he was waiting the team noticed some suspicious behaviour in him and frisked him and during frisking the team found two country made pistol in his possession with four live rounds of ammunition.
During investigation the accused was identified as,Shakeel who confessed that he was sourcing weapons from his contacts in Amaravathi in Maharastra and selling it to his clients who are gangsters and rowdies.
A detailed investigation by the team it was revealed that the accused was arrested last year for similar offence in Sampigehalli police station limits, but after coming out on bail, he continued to do his activities he added.
Finally Bengaluru police commissioner,Kamal Pant has appreciated Addl CP East,A Subramanyeswara Rao,DCP East,Dr Bheemashankar S Guled,ACP,Ningappa B Sakkiri, PI,Sathish HS,PSIs,as,Nagaraj Nedalgi,Shahjahan Sannidhi,ASI,Prakash and crime staff as,Balaji,Renuka Nayak,Anand,Santhosh Rathod,Atheef Hussain and Vinod has been appreciated for successfully nabbing the gun seller and recovering two country made pistol and four rounds of live ammunition from him a special reward will be given to the team he added.
