THANE: The Thane City Police Crime Branch has busted an inter-state illegal arms syndicate with the arrest of five individuals hailing from Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh, seizing country-made firearms and ammunition valued at ₹9.19 lakh, officials confirmed on Saturday.
Acting on specific intelligence, a team from Crime Branch Unit-1 laid a targeted trap near the Saket service road along the Nashik-Thane highway in the Rabodi area on November 2. Officers intercepted the suspects who were allegedly assembling to execute a major armed robbery in the region, according to Senior Inspector Anil Shinde.
The arrested suspects have been identified as Ritik Shashikant Tiwari alias Rahul (25), Kartik Kumar Vinod Chaudhary (23), Mrutyunjay Kumar Pradeep Choubey (26), and Brijkishore Nanhaku Tiwari (54)—all residents of Jharkhand—alongside Shubham Sunil Tiwari (24), a native of Chhattisgarh.
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