PUNE, Nov. 23 -- Pune police on Sunday said gangs operating in the city sourced weapons from Umarti village in Madhya Pradesh, where they busted a major inter-state illegal arms manufacturing and trafficking racket.
The police launched a crackdown in Umarti village in Barwani district, located around 500 km from Pune, detaining 36 persons and seizing a huge cache of weapons. In the operation, carried out jointly with the MP police, 50 furnaces, where weapons were being manufactured illegally, were destroyed.
Speaking to reporters, Pune Police Commissioner Amitesh Kumar said, "Fifteen days ago, we had decided to destroy places where pistols were manufactured and factories from where weapons were supplied to Pune and other parts of the stat...