2 arrested while selling weapons

hyderabad: the operations cell of the city police arrested two persons and recovered two country-made weapons and a revolver from them. the accused - r shivshankar yadav and mohd dudekula mastan were arrested while trying to sell the weapons at rose cafe in bowenpally, city police commissioner p ramulu said in a press release here on thursday. yadav, a native of allahabad, told the police that he was involved in a stabbing case at bowenpally.he acquired the weapons from his native place to settle scores with a local youth, who opposed yadav's behaviour. due to dire need of money, yadav and his associate mastan contacted one person to sell the weapons and were waiting to hand over the arms, when the police arrested them. the police also seized 12 bore cartridges, four live bullets, four detonators and a fuse wire from them. yadav also confessed that an armyman sold him the explosives and a weapon for a consideration of rs 5,000. commissioner ramulu appreciated the good work done by the operations cell he also announced that lakshmaiah will be promoted to the rank of head constable.