New Delhi, June 27: An illegal fire arm supplier has been arrested along two of his associates, and 26 sophisticated pistols recovered from their possession, police said on Wednesday.

Deputy Commissioner of Police, Northeast, Atul Kumar Thakur said that Salim Ahmad, 47, and his associates -- Naseem Ahmad, 30, and Mohammad Faizan, 22, were nabbed from Osmanpur on Tuesday.

"We recovered 26 sophisticated semi-automatic pistols, 30 mm pistols, 800 live cartridges of different bores, 19 magazines, Rs 1 lakh cash and a Fortuner car in which the arms and ammunition were being transported," he said. 

Salim Ahmad told police that he has been in the crime world for more than last 20 years and was supplying arms for the past few years. 

"He was fond of carrying weapons and the illegal arms came to him for repair and from various parts of Western UP. While travelling, he hid the weapons in the spare wheel of the vehicles," the police officer said.

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Bengaluru (PTI): The Bangalore Metropolitan Transport Corporation (BMTC) has collected over Rs 19 lakh as a penalty from 10,069 passengers who were penalised for travelling without tickets and occupying seats exclusively reserved for ladies in the last three months, officials said on Thursday.

The checking staff of BMTC have intensified checking of buses operated in and around Bengaluru City to detect ticketless travelling by passengers, they said.

According to BMTC, during the months of August, September and October, the checking staff checked 57,219 trips and penalised 8,891 ticketless passengers by collecting Rs 17,96,030 as penalty and 5,268 cases were booked against conductors for their dereliction of duty.

During the same period, they have also penalised 1,178 male passengers for occupying seats exclusively reserved for lady passengers and imposed fines by collecting Rs 1,17,800 in accordance with the KMV (Karnataka Motor Vehicle) Rules of the MV Act of 1988.

"In total, during the months of August, September and October, 10,069 passengers were penalised and Rs 19,13,830 was collected," the BTMC officials stated.