Pune: The arrest of a delivery person with a firearm in Pimpri on April 29 led the Pimpri Chinchwad crime branch to recover eight more country-made pistols and 46 cartridges, and to arrest three more accused.Police investigation revealed that the arrested men had brought these firearms from a criminal on the police records from Western Maharashtra.“We are investigating why these accused were carrying such a large number of firearms,” assistant police commisisoner (crime) Vishal Hire said.The Pimpri police, on April 29, arrested the delivery person Azaharuddin Sutar, (30), in Pimpri and recovered a country-made pistol from him. The investigations were later handed over to the crime branch.A crime branch team led by senior police inspector Narendra Thakare arrested three more men, Vaibhav Shete, (31), of Thergaon, Saurabh Jadhav, (27), and Akshay Kamble, (31), both from Pashan.Assistant police inspector Dattatreya Gulig said that all the accused are connected to each other. Shete has his own business of social media management, Jadhav is an estate agent and Kamble is a daily -wage worker. “These arrested men do not have a previous criminal record. Our investigations are on,” Gulig said.
