LUCKNOW, May 10 -- A joint team of the UP Special Task Force (STF) and local police busted an illegal arms manufacturing unit being run under the cover of a lock-making business in Etah district on Friday evening. Three men were arrested, and 16 country-made pistols, along with cartridges and firearm-making tools, were recovered from a rented house in Nagla Chandan locality under Kotwali Nagar police station, additional superintendent of police (SP) Abdul Qadir said on Saturday.

The raid was conducted around 6:45 pm on Friday following specific intelligence inputs, according to a press statement issued by the UP STF. The accused - Seenu and Meenu, both sons of Bholu alias Bhole of Bankner village in Kasganj district, and their uncle Mors...