Uttar Pradesh Police's Special Task Force (STF) has arrested three alleged inter-state arms smugglers and seized a cache of firearms from them in Gautam Buddh Nagar.
Jagdish Sharma, Shafiq and Tanvir were arrested from Surajpur area yesterday with illegal fire arms including nine pistols of .32 bore, two single barrel guns, six country made pistols and several cartridges, an STF release here stated today.
During interrogation, the accused confessed that they were involved in smuggling of arms for the past four years from Bihar and Madhya Pradesh, it said.
