In a crackdown on inter-state arms smuggling gangs, Malad Police have arrested two men and recovered country-made guns, a foreign pistol, and live cartridges from them. The arrested accused were identified as Dhiraj Surendra Upadhya, 35, and Ravindra alias Raghavendra Pandey, 35.

According to the police, Sub-Inspector Rafiq Gawandi received a tip-off about a suspicious man near a hotel at Pawan Bagh in Malad West on September16. Acting on the alert, a police team led by Senior Inspector Dushyant Chavan detained Dhiraj Surendra Upadhyay, 35, a Borivli resident, and recovered a knife and a live round from him, as well as a country-made firearm hidden under a railway bridge.