A 26-year-old youngster was arrested from Jamshedpur’s Mango area by the police for allegedly supplying firearms to gangsters across the city.

During the raid, the police recovered six firearms, along with a large quantity of ammunition. The police had been tipped off to raid Prabir Kumar Singh’s residence on Gurudwara Road, Mango. Prabir is the younger brother of the notorious criminal Pradip Singh.

The seized firearms include four country-made pistols and two pistols of 7.65 MM.

Talking to the media about the arrest, senior superintendent of police, M Tamil Vanan, revealed, “Acting on a tip-off, a police team led by deputy superintendent of police (headquarters-1) Pawan Kumar raided Prabir’s at Gurudwara Road in Mango. When we arrested him but were unable to locate any firearms at his home during the search. However, when we interrogated him at Mango thana, he gave in and accepted that he used to supply firearms to various criminals. He even revealed that he had stocked six pistols at a friend’s house in Mango itself.”

Following Prabir’s revelation, the police raided his friend’s house situated on the Post Office Road in Mango, from where the ammunition was recovered.

The senior SP said that Prabir's friend was unaware of the fact that the bag he had been asked to keep contained the firearms.

“The police also interrogated the said friend of Prabir and let him go after it was convinced that he was not aware of the contents of the bag which he had kept at his house in good faith. But there is one more person involved in the racket,” said Vanan.

According to the senior police officer, Prabir was not associated with any particular gang but would supply them firearm on demand.

“We are now trying to find out the source from where Prabir would procure the firearms and ammunition. We are investigating this case, more people will be arrested,” said the police officer.

According to senior sources in the police, the seized pistols would be sent to a Ranchi-based forensic lab for a ballistic test, to check if they had been used earlier.