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A immense cache of arms and ammunition was seized by constabulary successful Murshidabad connected Friday (November 21, 2025). The territory has connected aggregate occasions recorded the highest fig of cases of governmental violence. This comes arsenic a important improvement up of the 2026 West Bengal Assembly elections, arsenic galore parts of the State person antecedently witnessed aggregate cases of pre and post-election violence.
“We had accusation from a root and acted connected it. We waited to drawback them astatine the close time. Two radical person been arrested. We produced them successful tribunal contiguous and got constabulary remand for 5 days,” Uday Sankar Ghosh, Inspector-in-Charge of Berhrampore Police Station wrong the Murshidabad Police District jurisdiction told The Hindu on Friday. Police volition support them successful custody and proceed further questioning to get elaborate accusation astir their operations.
During the apprehension constabulary recovered 8 pieces of 6.7 mm pistols, 16 pieces of bare magazine, and 100 rounds of unrecorded ammunition. They besides recovered 10,000 fake Indian currency notes.
“A lawsuit has been registered astatine Berhampore Police Station successful transportation with the incident, and efforts are underway to hint and apprehension the different accused persons involved,” an authoritative connection from Murshidabad Police said connected Friday afternoon.
The betterment of the arms and ammunition was made adjacent the Berhampore stadium. According to sources, the arms were smuggled successful from bordering States of West Bengal.
The 2 arrested radical are residents of Jalangi, Murshidabad district. It is not wide if they meant to smuggle the arms retired of West Bengal, oregon if the duo were conscionable carriers of the arms successful a bigger nexus. Police are investigating each angles to get to the root of the amerciable arms.
In a related development, successful the Farakka country of the Murshidabad territory constabulary recovered astatine slightest 20 to 25 crude bombs, raising alarm successful the area.
