A joint team of Bihar and West Bengal STF, backed by police teams of Muzaffarpur and Vaishali police, has unearthed an illegal gun factory in Vaishali district. The police also seized a huge cache of finished and unfinished firearms.

Police have arrested seven people in this case including three from Vaishali district, three from Munger district and one from Jumai after conducting a raid on Monday in Chachapaith Chakoulia village.

A large number of semi-manufactured pistols have been found from the illegal gun manufacturing plant. This includes 157 pistol bodies, 48 pistols, 43 semi-made pistols, 142 body plates, 22 rod, and live cartridges.

The raid was conducted following a tip off. The policemen in plain clothes first blocked the exit routes of the villages and then started scanning the house of the suspects, Mohammad Saheb Raza and his son of Mohammed Shafi Ahmed.

The father-son duo had constructed a 10-feet-high boundary wall around their house, which did not let outsiders know about their gun-manufacturing plant.

The raids continued for over two hours during which the cops also recovered four lathe machines.

Apart from Saheb Raza, his two sons Asif Raza and Sarf Alam, the cops have also arrested Ladden, Lallan, Parvez and Afroz.