Pune: Swargate police on Monday detained two boys, aged 17, for allegedly possessing a country-made pistol and two bullets, collectively worth Rs40,000.The two boys, residents of Dias Plot, were found sitting with the weapon near Mutha Right Bank Canal, close to Swargate. A team comprising assistant inspector Swapnil Shelke and police constable Sagar Kekan detained them on a tip-off.Shelke said, “Alankar police had earlier detained one of the boys for possessing a sharp weapon. He used it to damage vehicles parked on a road. The other boy was earlier detained by Parvati police in an attempted-murder case.”Shelke said, “The two have given us the name of an agent from whom they had obtained the country-made pistol. We suspect that the pistol was brought from Madhya Pradesh. They wanted the pistol only to show off. They do not attend school. Their parents are casual workers.”
