LUCKNOW, Feb. 5 -- UP Special Task Force (STF) on Tuesday recovered a huge cache of 'Made in Italy' ammunitions from 1975 from a member of a gang of interstate firearm smugglers in Meerut, said senior police officials. They said these ammunitions were smuggled into the city from Dehradun's Institute of Shooting Sports by two persons, who were still at large.

In a note to media, a senior STF official said Muzaffarnagar resident Rashid Ali was arrested from outside SD Global Hospital under Pallav Puram police station limits of Meerut around 4.30 pm. He said the accused was travelling in a car and the cartridges were hidden in a secret cavity formed for the same purpose.

The STF official stated that Rashid Ali revealed during interrogation...