The Rajnandgaon District Police on April 14
arrested four persons, including a city-based
arms dealer-cum-petty contractor, near Farhad
chowk in Manpur for their alleged act of procuring
arms and ammunitions for the Communist Party
of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist),
reports The Times of India. A US-made
sophisticated pistol and INR 400,000 in cash
were among the materials seized. Mohammed
Irfan Mohammed Samad, a resident of Rose Colony
in city, was arrested along with Mohammed
Ahmad Qureshi, Tilak Goyal, and Deepak Talukdar.
Irfan was earlier arrested by Saoner Police
and quizzed by Nagpur crime branch too. Though
Chhattisgarh Police have identified him as
a petty contractor of roads, local Police
labelled him an arms dealer. A section of
the security agencies also claimed that Irfan
was linked to senior Maoist leaders whom he
supplied arms and ammunition. A native of
Betul in Madhya Pradesh, Irfan had migrated
to city a few years ago and became rich within
a short time. |
