Acting on a tip-off, police raided the house of Rabiul Islam, a Trinamool Congress leader of Kranti panchayat in Mal subdivision, last night and seized a country made gun.
Islam was remanded to five days' police custody by a local court.
The arrest came days after Trinamool Congress leader Naren Chakraborty was arrested at Kolkata airport for carrying an unlicensed gun.
Chakraborty, a top functionary of the Burdwan Zilla Parishad and Pandabeshwar block Trinamool Congress president, was arrested on January 31 when he was trying to board a Chennai-bound flight from NSCBI Airport with an unlicensed gun and cartridges in his bag.
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