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Ranchi, Nov 25 (PTI) The Jharkhand anti-terrorist squad (ATS) Thursday said it has busted an inter-state arms and ammunition racket and arrested five persons, including a serving BSF havildar and a retired personnel of the force for being allegedly involved in supplying ammunition to the banned CPI(Maoist), other splinter groups and criminal gangs in various states and seized a large quantity of arms and ammunition from them.
The arrest comes close on the heels of the ATS arresting four others earlier this month, including a CRPF personnel for allegedly supplying ammunition to the banned ultra outfit and other bodies.
With this arrest a total nine persons have been arrested by the ATS for their involvement in the inter-state arms racket, its superintendent of police Prashant Anand said.
"ATS has busted a big arms and ammunition inter-state racket and arrested a BSF havildar for supplying arms and ammunition to criminal gangs, banned ultra outfits including CPI (Maoist) and splinter groups," he said.
The ATS SP said the arrested were involved in arm rackets in various states including Maharashtra, Bihar, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh among others and a huge quantity of arms and ammunition was seized from them including semi automatic pistols and live cartridges.
In the course of interrogation, it was found that the accused had supplied ammunition for AK-47 and INSAS rifles in huge quantities, Anand said.