NIA raids in four states including Bihar in arms smuggling case, 315 rifles recovered

NIA Raid: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Wednesday (19 December 2024) raided a number of areas in Bihar, Nagaland, Haryana and Jammu and Kashmir in a case associated to arms smuggling. A complete of 17 locations had been raided in these four states, which included 12 locations in Bihar, 3 in Nagaland, 1 in Haryana and 1 in Jammu and Kashmir. These raids had been carried out on the areas of 15 suspects associated to the accused who had been already arrested and chargesheeted.

Many weapons including 315 rifle recovered

During this raid, NIA recovered 315 rifles, 11 reside cartridges, 3 empty cartridges, cellphones, pen drives, reminiscence playing cards and plenty of digital gadgets. Apart from this, supplies and gear used in making weapons had been additionally discovered. The investigation group additionally seized a automotive and about Rs 14 lakh in money. This case is said to smuggling of banned weapons from Nagaland and North-Eastern states. Bihar was getting used each as a transit route and vacation spot for smuggling of those weapons.

Weapons smuggling was occurring for a few years

The investigation to date has revealed that the accused had been concerned in arms smuggling for a few years. NIA investigation continues to be occurring in this matter. This raid in Bihar is said to Fakuli police station of Muzaffarpur district. Bihar Police had registered this case on 7 May 2024 and on 5 August, ANI took over the investigation of this case.

NIA had arrested two individuals named Vikas Kumar and Satyam Kumar together with illegally bought AK-47 by the Special Task Force and Muzaffarpur Police. Investigation revealed that accused Vikas had bought AK-47 from an individual named Ahmed Ansari from Gopalganj, Bihar. After this he handed over the weapon to Devmani Rai of Muzaffarpur for safekeeping. After interrogation, accused Devmani took the police to the place the place AK-47 and 5 rounds of ammunition had been hidden.

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