Varanasi: In a joint action, the STF Lucknow field unit and Cantonment police arrested a notorious arms manufacturer and smuggler on platform-9 of Varanasi Junction on Wednesday. A total of six cases under sections of the Arms Act are lodged against him with different police stations.Producing Mithailal before reporters on Wednesday, DCP Varuna Zone Pramod Kumar said that upon receiving information about an arms smuggler coming to Varanasi Junction (Cantt railway station) to sell weapons, a team of STF and Cantt police raided the place and arrested the arms smuggler. Upon searching, three 9mm pistols and a semi-constructed revolver were recovered from his possession.Mithailal, 59, a native of Bhuili Khash village under Adalhat police station in Mirzapur, was currently residing in Ruppanpur area of Sarnath. During interrogation, he divulged his hideout, where cops raided and recovered a total of eight cartridges of different bores, over 10 misfired cartridges of various bores, 10 shell casings of 7.62 mm and 8 mm, 5 pistol magazines, equipment for making firearms, a train ticket, and Rs 452 cash.Mithailal further revealed that he was engaged in making firearms while living in rented accommodations in Mirzapur and Sarnath areas. Mithailal, a notorious arms dealer, has a long criminal history with over six cases registered against him at Cantt, Maduadeeh, and Sarnath police stations of Varanasi, involving criminal activities from 2005 to 2025.The DCP said Mithailal was previously arrested under serious sections of Smuggling and the Arms Act. The police are investigating Mithailal’s network and searching for his accomplices.
