Big cache of firearms recovered after arrest of man from UP’s Meerut
UP Particular Activity Pressure (STF) on Wednesday evening recovered an enormous cache of unlawful firearms after arrest of a person from Meerut, stated senior police officers right here on Thursday.
Big cache of firearms recovered after arrest of man from UP’s Meerut (Pic for illustration)
The firearms have been meant to be equipped to totally different prison gangs of West UP’s Meerut, Muzaffarnagar and gangs of Delhi and Uttarakhand. They stated at the very least 12 magazines have been additionally recovered from the arrested individual together with 10 items of .32 bore nation made pistols.
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Sharing a press word, the STF officers stated the arrested accused was recognized as Vinay Tyagi, the resident of Saharanpur’s Deoband. He introduced the recovered pistols and magazines from Indore based mostly unlawful firearms provider and meant handy them over to Rakshit Tyagi, the resident of Muzaffarnagar district.
A senior STF official stated Rakshit Tyagi was additionally current on the store close to Mawana bus stand petrol pump below Civil Traces police station of Meerut when the STF staff raided there on a particular tip off in regards to the motion of firearms provider, however he escaped profiting from darkness. He stated the accused confessed throughout interrogation that he had introduced firearms from Indore twice earlier than it on behest of Rakshit Tyagi, who used to present him ₹15,000 for one journey to convey firearms.
He additional stated Rakshit Tyagi, who’s the son of infamous gangster Vicky Tyagi and Meena Tyagi. He stated Vicky Tyagi has been on the run for the previous few months whereas his spouse Meena Tyagi is lodged in a gangster case in Ambedkarnagar jail for a lot of months. He stated Rakshit Tyagi was operating the gang single handedly within the absence of his dad and mom, who have been into this enterprise for the previous a few years.
The official stated the STF is additional finishing up raids to arrest Rakshit Tyagi and different members of the gang. He stated the arrested accused Vinay Tyagi is being additional interrogated to extract details about different members of the gang and individuals who had bought firearms from them.
