West Bengal Police Seizes Large Cache of Illegal Arms and Explosive Materials in Crackdown

The Special Task Force (STF) of West Bengal Police, in a major crackdown against smuggling of illegal arms and explosives, has recovered a huge cache of arms, ammunition and explosive materials in two separate operations. On the one hand, a total of 38 illegal firearms and 122 cartridges were seized during the crackdown in Jamuria and Pandaveswar, while 1150 gelatin sticks and 1064 detonators were recovered in Murarai police station area of Birbhum. This was informed by STF SP Siddharth Dapola at a press conference in Durgapur. According to STF, a case no. 310/26 was registered in Jamuria police station on 31 July 2026 in connection with smuggling of illegal arms. Investigations revealed that Khairul Alam Chowdhury alias Gadai, arrested from Belbed Mor on 30 July, was allegedly associated with an inter-state arms smuggling gang. The gang is suspected to have brought illegal arms from Munger in Bihar and supplied them to different areas of West Bengal. In this case, one Mohd Hussain, a resident of Pandaveswar, Jharkhand, was arrested on 15 August 2019 at his residence in Andal police station area of Ranchi.