Viral video of woman washing pistols helps cops bust illegal arms factory

The police have seized three country-made pistols, several half-made weapons, and various other equipment and materials from the illegal factory.

The Madhya Pradesh police recently busted an illegal arms factory in Madhya Pradesh's Morena district with the help of a viral video purportedly showing a woman washing pistols with soap.

Viral video of woman washing pistols with soap leads to cops busting illegal arms factory(Twitter)

In the video, which did rounds on social media, a woman wearing a saree can be seen holding a country-made pistol over a vessel and rubbing it with soap and brush to make it shine.

After verifying the video, a police team on Friday night raided a house in the Ganeshpura area - from where the illegal arms unit had been operated for the last six months, the Mahua police station in-charge Pawan Singh told the media, reported PTI.

The police have seized three country-made pistols, several half-made weapons, and various other equipment and materials from the illegal factory.

Meanwhile, the police also arrested a man-son duo - the woman's husband, Shakti Kapoor Sakhwar, and her father-in-law, Biharlal Sakhwar, for allegedly running the illegal arms factory. The duo were produced before a local court on Saturday which sent Biharilal to jail and his son Shakti to one-day police custody for interrogation, the police said.

(With inputs from PTI)