Arms smuggler arrested with weapons, 5 pistols seized

An arms smuggler was on Wednesday held with weapons from a locality under Kotwali police station area in Bihar's Munger district, police sources said. Acting on a tip off, the police nabbed the arms smuggler, identified as Sonu, and seized five pistols and ten magazines from his possession, the sources said.

A native of Gorakhpur district of Uttar Pradesh, the smuggler had hidden the weapons inside a wooden electric board, they said.