Gurugram, Nov. 3 -- Gurugram police arrested two alleged interstate arms smugglers near a private university on Sohna Road on Sunday night and seized eight country-made pistols and 16 magazines from their possession, officials said on Monday.

The suspects allegedly used public buses to transport illegal firearms from Khargone in Madhya Pradesh to supply criminals in Haryana, Delhi, Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan. Police said they had been involved in arms smuggling for the past four years.

The accused, identified as Durgesh and Narender alias Naren, are residents of Bamanala village in Madhya Pradesh's Khargone district. A team from the Sector 40 crime branch arrested them while they were travelling towards Delhi.

The arrests followed the...