Kohima, July 27: An inspector of Nagaland police and five others, including a woman have been arrested for trying to sell ammunition from the central store of the force.
Over 2000 rounds of ammunition, bullets of automatic weapons were stolen from the central police armoury.
Meanwhile, Nagaland police set up committee to investigate the case.
Speaking to reporters, Dimapur commissioner of police, Kevithuto Sophie said, “The main accused has been found to be the police inspector Michael Yanthan and he has confessed to his crime in the stealing and selling of the ammunition,”.
The police operation against the stealing of ammunition started on July 9 after it was detected during stock verification.
“The police put up check points in different locations on NH 29 but drew a blank on the first day. On July 10 the police intercepted a car in the 6th Mile area in Chumoukedima and upon inspection large quantities of ammunition were found concealed in three rice bags,” Sophie said.
He said, “Two persons were arrested and during interrogation they confessed that the consignments were collected from the house of the widow of a dead NSCN(IM) functionary,”.
“Yanthan accepted responsibility of stealing and selling ammunition. He confessed that he was paid Rs 4.25 lakh by one person to purchase about 1500 rounds of SLR ammunition and 1000 rounds of 5.56 mm calibre bullets of INSAS rifles,” Sophie said.
Speaking to media persons, Director General of Police, Nagaland, Rupin Sharma said that alongside the ongoing probe by Dimapur Police, the administrative level committee will look into what went wrong and whether additional improvement in the system can be made.
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