Overview

• Madhusudan Mukherjee was produced in court and remanded on charges under the Arms Act following a raid on his Khardah flat.
• Detectives seized 16 firearms, 904 rounds of ammunition, about ₹1 lakh in cash, 248 grams of gold and over 10 kg of antique coins.
• Forensic teams are examining the weapons and ammunition to establish their origins and manufacturing methods.
• Preliminary inquiries indicate many of the firearms were produced in Purulia and routed through an arms dealer in Munger, Bihar.
• Police are mapping potential client networks and investigating whether Mukherjee supplied arms to criminals in Hooghly and the South and North 24 Parganas districts.