India, June 28 -- An industrial training institute student on internship with the Haryana Police allegedly smuggled at least 32 firearms from the warehouse for inventories at the Sector 8 police station in Faridabad and sold them to criminal networks in Haryana, Rajasthan and Delhi, police said on Saturday. Twenty suspects, including the intern, have been arrested and all the stolen weapons recovered, they added.

Police said the thefts took place between October last year and May this year. Of the 32 firearms, 22 were non-prohibited bore weapons belonging to civilians that had been kept at the police station for safe custody, including six foreign-made firearms valued between Rs.5 lakh and Rs.12 lakh each. The remaining 10 were country-m...