Another arms cache seized in Kurla in Mumbai

The Kurla police on Friday arrested two people who were on their way to deliver a small arms consignment including loaded US-made and country-made revolvers to some unidentified persons at Chita Camp in Trombay.

“Fahim Ahmed Dalwai, 30, a resident of Chita Camp, and Tilakchand Sawant, 30, a resident of Neral in Karjat, were arrested for possessing the lethal arms. They were remanded to police custody till September 21 by the additional chief metropolitan magistrate’s court,” said senior inspector Vijay Bagve of the Kurla police station. Sawant was earlier arrested by the Neral police in a cheating case in 2009.

During the inquiry, it was revealed that Sahil Mohammed Khan, alias Pappu, 29, a resident of Neral in Karjat, had supplied them the consignment. Interestingly, Khan and Mohammed Irfan Dawre, 35, were arrested by the Nehru Nagar police on Wednesday at Sai Baba Nagar in Kurla (East). Four pistols and 23 live cartridges were recovered from them.

Based on a tip-off, the police team laid a trap outside the Kurla railway station and nabbed them.