AURANGABAD: The Police today busted an illegal minigun factory and seized a haul of country-made weapons and raw materials used for processing weapons from a village under Jamhor police station area in Bihar's Aurangabad district, a police officer said.
Acting on information from five criminals arrested last night from Barun police station area, the police raided Satuahi village and unearthed the illegal minigun factory being run from the house of one Sudama Vishwakarma, Superintendent of Police (SP) Baburam said.
Two country-made pistols, five live ammunition, besides a large quantity of raw material used for processing weapons were seized from the spot, he said.
Baburam said the five arrested criminals had told the cops that they had fetched nail-fitted steel sheet from the illegal minigun factory to use it for puncturing the tyres of passing vehicles and loot its owners and passengers