Archive · 7 Sep 2025
Bengal Police Investigates Illegal Firearm Sales from Dalhousie Shop
Police are looking into an old gun shop because they think it was selling guns illegally.
They arrested the shop owners to find out how many guns were sold and to whom.
The investigation started after police found guns in a man's apartment who had posted a picture of them online.
Some employees of the shop were also caught before for selling ammunition.
The police are trying to figure out who bought the guns and where they ended up.
Bengal Police are investigating the illegal sale of firearms from Nursing Chunder Daw & Co. in Dalhousie.
The investigation was initiated after a raid based on a photograph of firearms posted on social media.
Three partners of the shop have been arrested and are in police custody.
Police seized 41 undocumented firearms from the shop.
The police are trying to locate the buyers of the illegal firearms and the source of the guns.
- Who
- Bengal Police, Nursing Chunder Daw & Co. partners, Madhusudan Mukherjee
- What
- Bengal Police are investigating the illegal sale of firearms from an arms shop in Dalhousie
- When
- Ongoing investigation, arrests made recently
- Where
- Dalhousie, Calcutta, and surrounding areas
- Why
- To identify buyers and trace the origins of illegally sold firearms
- Suspects Arrested
- Subir Daw, Abhiir Daw, and Subrata Daw (partners of Nursing Chunder Daw & Co.)
- Location of Arrest
- Girish Park, North Calcutta
- Shop Involved
- Nursing Chunder Daw & Co. (180-year-old arms shop)
- Items Recovered From Shop
- 41 undocumented firearms
- Related Arrests
- Madhusudan Mukherjee, Jayanta Dutta, Shantanu Sarkar
- Incident That Triggered Investigation
- A photograph of firearms posted on a WhatsApp group