BHOPAL: A social media video of a woman scrubbing country-made pistols in soap and water has led to a major firearms bust, barely 18km from Morena district headquarters in Madhya Pradesh. Police raided a house in Ganeshpura village and arrested the woman’s husband and father-in-law. A large cache of illegal pistols and semi-finished firearms was seized.Last week, a 17-second video went around on social media. It shows a woman cleaning two ‘kattas’ with a brush and soap water, while two lay on the floor along with a tumbler. An infant can be heard wailing in the background as a man asks her to add more detergent.
Police verified the video, identified the woman and raided the house Friday night. The woman’s husband, Shakti Kapoor Sakhwar, and father-in-law, Biharilal, were captured while trying to escape with a cache of weapons. The raid led to the seizure of several pistols of 315 and 32-bore from Shakti.
Materials and machinery used for illegally producing weapons were found in the house. An FIR was filed against the father-son duo under the Arms Act Saturday. Biharilal was remanded in jail while Shakti was placed in police remand for a day.
Police verified the video, identified the woman and raided the house Friday night. The woman’s husband, Shakti Kapoor Sakhwar, and father-in-law, Biharilal, were captured while trying to escape with a cache of weapons. The raid led to the seizure of several pistols of 315 and 32-bore from Shakti.
Materials and machinery used for illegally producing weapons were found in the house. An FIR was filed against the father-son duo under the Arms Act Saturday. Biharilal was remanded in jail while Shakti was placed in police remand for a day.