India, Nov. 23 -- The Pune police on Saturday busted a major inter-state illegal arms manufacturing and trafficking racket operating from Umarti village in Barwani district of Madhya Pradesh (MP), leading to the detention of 36 persons and seizure of a huge cache of weapons, officials said.

The operation was conducted after several pistols were seized in Pune city over the last three weeks with the supply links found in Madhya Pradesh, they said. During the operation, carried out jointly with the MP police, 50 furnaces, where weapons were being manufactured illegally, were destroyed, they said.

Addressing a press conference, Ranjan Kumar Sharma, Pune Joint Commissioner of Police, said, "The Pune police conducted a combing operation in M...