Crime Branch arrest 3, recover 6 country made pistols and 526 cartridges during Juhapura raid

Ahmedabad: The Ahmedabad Crime Branch has arrested three people including an accused in the murder of an RTI activist and recovered 6 pistols and 526 cartridges. Of the three, one Lala had procured arms in Madhya Pradesh and had sold them to the other two accused in Ahmedabad. Lala intended to supply the remaining arms to his friends from Rajkot and Botad, whom he had come in contact with in the Sabarmati jail.

Acting on a tip-off, a team from the city’s crime branch raided the home of one Mohammed Sajid alias Lala Aslam Shaikh in the Sama Society of Juhapura area and found 4 pistols and 516 cartridges. Lala, who was acquitted in the case of murdering RTI activist Nadim Sayed, confessed before the police during interrogation that he had procured the arms from Farid Dilawar Ajmeri and Haider Pathan in Bhopal. He also confessed giving away a pistol each to Mohammed Mehboob alias Arif Ghulam Haider Shaikh and Mohammed Idrish alias Idu Abdul Hamid Shaikh, both of whom are also residents of Juhapura.

Based on Lala’s confession, the police have also recovered the two country pistols and 10 cartridges from Arif and Idu. DeshGujarat.