A joint police team on Tuesday evening raided a house in Madhusadanpur, located in Bihar's Bhagalpur area, and found an active improvised firearms factory on the first floor.
The operation, conducted on the basis of intelligence inputs received by a joint team of the Kolkata Special Task Force (STF), Bihar STF, and the Madhusadanpur Police, has led to the arrest of five people at the house registered to an M. Nasir Ansari.
The five people who have been arrested have been identified as M. Monazir, M. Shadab Ali (alias Saddam), M. Aslam (alias Tinku), M. Samsher Alam (alias Chotu), and M. Shahanawaz.
Four of them are said to be expert arms makers, while one is said to be the co-owner of the house, which was operating under the guise of the spinning mill business on the ground floor.
Police sources say that during the search, the following articles were recovered from them—20 semi-finished Indian-made 7.65 mm pistols, eight pistol barrels, two milling machines, one drill machine, one grinding polishing machine, one hand grinder, among other things.
(More details are awaited.)
