Archive · 18 Sep 2025
Bengal STF Arrests Man for Illegal Arms Supply
The police arrested a man named Sheikh Manu for selling illegal guns.
He sold these guns to a person in Khardah.
Police found a bunch of guns and bullets at the Khardah resident's home.
Manu got the guns from a gun shop in Purulia.
Some of the guns were also traced back to an old shop in Dalhousie.
The police are checking other gun shops for more illegal activity.
They arrested two people connected to the Dalhousie shop earlier.
Manu is believed to be part of a larger group dealing in illegal weapons.
Sheikh Manu was arrested in Purulia for selling illegal firearms.
He allegedly supplied guns to a Khardah resident, Madhusudan Banerjee.
Police found 14 guns/rifles and 905 bullets at Banerjee's home.
The investigation linked the arms to a Purulia shop and a Dalhousie shop.
Two employees of the Dalhousie shop were previously arrested.
- Who
- Sheikh Manu and Madhusudan Banerjee were involved.
- What
- Sheikh Manu was arrested for allegedly supplying illegal firearms to Madhusudan Banerjee.
- When
- The arrest took place on Tuesday.
- Where
- Manu was arrested in Jhalda, Purulia. Banerjee lives in Khardah.
- Why
- Manu allegedly sold firearms to Banerjee, some sourced from a Purulia gun shop and a Dalhousie shop.
- Arrested
- Sheikh Manu
- Charged with
- Supplying illegal firearms
- Location of arrest
- Jhalda, Purulia
- Recipient of arms
- Madhusudan Banerjee, Khardah resident
- Arms found
- 14 guns/rifles, 905 bullets
- Original investigation
- Barrackpore police commissionerate