Police busts illegal arms manufacturing factory in Kolkata's Port area

In Kolkata's Port area police have busted illegal arms manufacturing factory and seized the material used for making guns. One person has been arrested.

Kolkata: Police have busted illegal arms manufacturing factory in the Port area of the city and seized the material used for making guns.

One person has been arrested for allegedly running the factory.

Acting on a tip-off, a police team raided a single-storeyed building at Nadial in the city's Port area, busted the factory, and arrested Abdul Kayum alias Munna late Monday night.

One finished 7 mm pistol, a magazine, one semi-finished magazine, a pipe used for making barrels, three drilling machines, six fixed vice machines, two hand-held vices, steel sheets, iron bars, hammers, hacksaw blades, iron spring coils were seized, police said.

"Apart from Kayum, the landlord of the building, Mohammed Kalim, and others were running the illegal factory," the police added. Barring Kayum, all others are on the run. A case has been registered at the Nadial Police Station.

Kayum is a resident of Bihar's Munger district, a hotbed for making illegal firearms.

The arrested person has been booked under the Arms Act and investigation has begun.