Nuh (Har), Mar 6 (PTI) Police have arrested an illegal arms supplier and recovered 10 country-made pistols from his possession, officials said on Monday.

The police also arrested the purchaser of the illegal weapons. A country-made pistol and five cartridges were also recovered from his possession, they said.

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The arms supplier has been identified as Imran, a resident of Chandanki village. He was also wanted in a 2022 case, they said.

Imran was also allegedly connected to an illegal arms manufacturing factory which was busted earlier in Hazaribas village of Bharatpur district in Rajasthan, police said.

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Imran was arrested from the bus stand of his village and 10 pistols kept in a plastic sack was seized from him, police said.

The accused revealed that a country-made pistol and cartridges were supplied by him to a resident of Luhinga Kalan and later he was also arrested, police said.

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