India, Feb. 16 -- The special task force (STF) of the West Bengal police arrested five people between Friday and Sunday in connection with a probe into suspected siphoning of ammunition meant for licensed firearms owners to criminals, officials involved in the probe said.

N C Daw and Company, a century-old gun shop located within 200 metres of the Kolkata police headquarters at Lalbazar, was searched and sealed on Saturday evening, hours after one of its employees was arrested.

"The home of Haji Rashid Molla, a businessman residing at Jibantala in South 24 Parganas district, was raided on Friday and 190 rounds of 7.65 mm pistol cartridge made by the Indian Ordnance Factory was seized from the house along with a 12-bore shotgun and nine ...