Ladies tailor held with firearms

AHMEDABAD: City crime branch on Sunday nabbed a notorious gunrunner

Zeesanraza Shaikh

, 32 — a

ladies tailor

by profession — with three

country made fire arms

including a pistol. Crime branch officials said they have also recovered an empty magazine and ten live cartridges of different calibers from him.

Deputy commissioner of police Deepan Bhadran said during interrogation Shaikh, a resident of New Faizal Park at Narol, confessed that he used to bring weapons from Uttar Pradesh at cheap price and sell it to his acquaintances at a higher price.

Crime branch sources said Shaikh a native of Kanpur in Uttar Pradesh had come to the city about eleven months ago and started a ladies tailor shop at Shah-e-Alam.

“We are interrogating him to know if he is in possession of other weapons or not. We are also verifying who are persons to whom he sold the fire arms,” said a senior crime branch official.