Overview

• On June 26 and 27, the Mumbai Police Crime Branch recovered five country-made pistols and 11 live cartridges during separate operations in Sewri and Kurla.
• Acting on a tip-off near the Dockyard in Sewri, officers arrested 24-year-old Ajay Kumar Diwakar of Kanpur with three pistols, ten cartridges and three magazines.
• Crime Branch Unit 5 detained 34-year-old electrician Pappu Manojkumar Sharma in Kurla West after he allegedly offered a country-made pistol and live rounds for sale.
• Both suspects have been charged under relevant sections of the Arms Act and are held in custody as deeper probes seek their links to interstate arms syndicates.
• Investigators are examining phone records and interrogation statements to map the supply chain of high-quality indigenous firearms across multiple states.