India, April 8 -- The Gujarat Police has detected over 100 people who bought firearms on the strength of counterfeit arms licences purportedly issued in Manipur and Nagaland, a senior officer of the state's Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) said on Tuesday.

Gujarat ATS deputy inspector general Sunil Joshi told reporters that seven people have been arrested in this connection.

The ATS has been investigating the case along with crime branch teams in Ahmedabad and Surat apart from special operations group (SOG) of several districts, he said.

Joshi said the ATS started the probe when ATS deputy superintendent of police SL Chaudhary received intelligence that there were six people from Gujarat who got weapons from some arms dealers in Haryana on t...