The latest seizures take the total recovery in the case to seven pistols and 20 live rounds. Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar : Cidco police on Sunday arrested two more men and seized three pistols and nine live rounds in an illegal firearms case, two days after arresting six youths.
Police identified the two as Shubham Dharmraj Walke (26) and Krushna Vishnu Adhane (29). On Saturday, the police had arrested six youths, most of them students of professional courses at various colleges in the city, and recovered four pistols and 11 live rounds valued at Rs 2.2 lakh.
Walke, who runs a mineral water bottle manufacturing business and lives in Savitri Nagar near Uddhavrao Patil School in Himayat Baug, was found in possession of two pistols and five live rounds, a police officer said. They were identified as Shiva Sure, Sumeet Visepute, Satyam Chate, Arjun Lingayat, Shrikant Shikhare and Vishal Bhosale. An FIR was registered at Cidco police station on the complaint of a police constable, and the number of accused arrested now stands at eight. The police are also trying to find out how the weapons reached the city and whether the accused have any links to other criminal activities.
They were arrested based on information provided by the accused held earlier.