Such groups have been smuggling handmade pistols to ultramodern rifles, Deputy Superintendent of Police Sanu Babu Thapaliya of Siraha said. [break]
According to DSP Thapaliya, the groups have modern weapons which even the Nepal Police don´t have.
A similar high-technology folding rifle was found buried underground behind the house of Parshuram Yadav of Bariyapatti-8, Shiva Nagar recently.
The smuggling of weapons from the neighboring market came to light following the arrest of three persons on the charge of smuggling a self-loading rifle.
According to police, weapons purchased from the neighboring Indian market are supplied to Siraha, Saptari, Dhanusha, Kathmandu and the remote hilly districts too.
The cost of small firearms exported from India is found to between Rs. 15,000 to Rs. 100,000.
In the past 10 months, Siraha police have confiscated 33 pistols from various parts of the district, and a large amount of explosives. In the process, 47 were arrested while 24 accused are at large.
People arrested in possession of firearms are usually freed at the behest of various political parties. And this has been making crime control difficult, the police have complained.
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