The Pune Police in Maharashtra on Sunday said that criminal gangs in the city had been sourcing weapons from Umarti village in Madhya Pradesh, where officers recently busted a major inter-state illegal arms manufacturing and trafficking racket, reported the PTI.

In a large-scale operation carried out jointly with the Madhya Pradesh Police, authorities raided Umarti village in Barwani district, about 500 kilometres from Pune. They detained 36 people and seized a substantial cache of weapons. Police also destroyed 50 furnaces used for the illegal manufacture of firearms.