Srinagar: A man from West Bengal was arrested on Thursday with a pistol that he had stolen from a house here, police said.
Lokesh Kumar, a native of West Bengal’s Alipurduar, who is currently living in Elahi Bagh Soura area was arrested at a joint naka at Regal chowk in the early hours of the day, Srinagar police said on X, formerly Twitter.
According to a police source, Kumar had stolen the licensed pistol earlier in the night from a house in Srinagar.
An FIR has been registered at Kothibagh police station, they added.