Lagatar24 Desk
Kolkata, July 5: The Special Task Force (STF) carried out a special raid in Kolkata’s Uttar Dinajpur district on Tuesday and confiscated weapons and ammunition, the officials said on Wednesday.
The West Bengal STF reportedly confiscated 100 rounds of 8 mm live cartridges, 80 rounds of 7 mm live cartridges, three pieces of one-shotter pipe guns and ten pistol magazines.
The raid was carried out by the West Bengal STF at the home of a guy named Alam in the Goalpokher Police station in the Islampur sub-division of district Uttar Dinajpur based on information from a source, the officials said.
“A special raid was conducted by a team of the Special Task Force of West Bengal on source information at the house of one Alam at Panjipara OP under PS Goalpokher in Islampur Police District on July 4 in the afternoon,” said the officials.
A case was opened at the Goalpokhar Police Station under the 1959 Arms Act, the officials said.
“The source and destinations of the arms and ammunitions will be examined in detail,” they added.
The matter is currently the subject of more investigation.
