Pune: The Pimpri Chinchwad police on Friday and Saturday seized three country-made pistols from the Chinchwad, Chakan, and Bhosari areas, and arrested three men and detained one minor in this regard.Police have registered separate complaints in this matter.On Saturday, the Pimpri Chinchwad crime branch detained a 16-year-old youth from Chinchwad and seized a country-made pistol and a cartridge from him. The minor was taken into custody near the flyover at Gawadenagar in Chinchwad on a tip-off. The minor was handed over to the Chinchwad police for further investigations. “We are questioning the minor to know the source of the firearm,” an officer from the Chinchwad police said.In other actions, the crime branch and Bhosari police on Friday arrested three men and seized two country-made pistols and two cartridges from them.A crime branch team took two men into custody from Chakan on Friday evening and recovered a country-made pistol and a cartridge. The duo were identified as Vaibhav Mane (29) of Chinchwad and Albert Joseph (25) of Dehu Road. A case was registered against the twowith the Chakan police.In addition,the Bhosari police arrested Ajay Nakhate (23) of Khed taluka, along with a firearm. He was taken into custody from the Devekar Vasti area on a tip-off, police said.An officer from the Pimpri Chinchwad crime branch said most of these seized firearms were smuggled from different villages in Madhya Pradesh. These firearms were brought into the city before the Pune police’s action at Umrati in Madhya Pradesh. “We are searching for the middlemen between the sellers and the purchasers of those weapons,” the officer said.
