Two held for making rifles after watching videos on YouTube
Amit Srivastava
The Navi Mumbai Crime Branch
arrested two persons for allegedly making and carrying country-made rifles on
February 18 in Panvel. The duo by profession a carpenter and an electrician
learned the process of making rifles after watching videos on YouTube. They had
already sold around five rifles.
Acting on a tip-off received from
reliable sources, the crime branch of Navi Mumbai police caught them with 10
country-made rifles and two live cartridges near Danphata along the Old
Mumbai-Pune road in Panvel area. They were coming to Navi Mumbai to deliver the
rifles in a motorbike.
The duo identified as Parshuram
Raghav Pirkad, 40, a resident of Nanavali in Khalapur and carpenter by
profession and Dattaram Govind Pandit, 55, a resident of Kharwndi in Karjat and
an electrician by profession.
Pravinkumar Patil, deputy commissioner of Police (crime branch) said that ten country-made rifles, two
cartridges, one motorbike, and a mobile phone were found when they were caught.
“In the initial investigation, we came to know that they learned the art of
making rifles from videos on YouTube. They had already sold around five rifles
between Rs 15,000 to Rs 30,000 each,” said Gowekar. He added that after carrying
out raids at their village in Raigad district, they also seized materials to be
used in making the rifles. According to the official, the same make original
rifle is available at Rs 1 lakh to Rs 1.5 lakh in the market.
They have been arrested under
sections 3, 5 and 25 of the Arms Act and 37 (1) and 135 of the
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