India, Feb. 17 -- The special task force (STF) of the West Bengal police arrested another employee of a gun shop in Kolkata on Monday in connection with a probe into illegal sale of arms and ammunition, officials involved in the probe said.

The suspect, identified as Shantanu Sarkar, was remanded in police custody by a local court until February 28. Officials said Sarkar is suspected to have supplied a 12 bore shotgun to a man arrested earlier.

Five people were arrested between Friday and Sunday.

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

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