Agartala: The customs officials in Tripura on Monday claimed to arrest one arms dealer from Manipur with four sophisticated foreign-made pistols while the detainee attempted to smuggle the arms into Bangladesh.
Official sources said that acting on a tip-off, the Customs officials arrested the arms dealer identified as Dangshua Mulji (25) from the Khowai district, along the India-Bangladesh border on Sunday night.
Mulji came to Tripura by train from Guwahati and he was intercepted at Singicherra border village while he was roaming along the India-Bangladesh border.
Four sophisticated Pistols (32mm and 9 mm) made in Russia, the US, and India along with 150 bullets and five magazines were recovered from him.
Customs officials, who are interrogating the youth, suspected that he is linked with a trans-border syndicate involved in arms and narcotics smuggling. Sunday night’s arms seizure took place within three weeks after Tripura Police separately arrested three people – a Bangladesh national and two from Bihar – with sophisticated arms.