FAISALABAD, Oct 21: City police seized a huge quantity of weapons stored in a deserted shop of main Weapons Market of Kutchery Bazaar here on Thursday.

A police source said that a team headed by City ASP Naeem Sheikh raided the weapons market and desealed the shop in a deserted plaza. The police recovered 73 big boxes full with different type of weapons. They immediately sealed the entire area and shifted the weapons by a truck.

He further said the police found that weapons in bulk quantity were brought by an arms dealer who stored the same in the deserted shop instead of his godown.

Kotwali police have not so far registered a case and also reluctant to provide information about the raid and recovery of weapons.

Meanwhile, weapon dealers told this correspondent that Khalid Bashir, who have a license to sell and purchase the arms, had brought this consignment after fulfilling all legal requirements. Not even a single bullet was illegal as the entire process of receiving and storing the weapons was completed in the presence of a judicial magistrate, they claimed.

They further said that Khalid Bashir had stored the weapons in a nearby shop so that the consignment could be checked and verified by the team of local administration. The raid was conducted illegally just to create harassment among the arms dealers, they added.