Overview
- Authorities conducted a pre-dawn joint operation in Umarti, Barwani district, demolishing illegal manufacturing units and destroying about 50 weapon furnaces.
- A 105-member Pune team led by DCP Somay Munde worked with Madhya Pradesh police and technical squads, seizing pistols, raw barrels, grinding machines and other tooling.
- Detention figures differ across official statements, with reports citing either 36 or 47 people in custody as counts are reconciled during the ongoing probe.
- The crackdown followed three weeks of Pune seizures totaling 21 country-made pistols traced to Umarti’s network, which police say marketed weapons under the “Umarati Shikalgar Arms (USA)” label and supplied multiple states.
- Pune’s police commissioner said city gangs sourced weapons from the village, noted the Sharad Mohol murder weapon was linked there, announced rewards for personnel, and said MCOCA charges will be invoked.