Video: Police arrest woman school teacher at Mainpuri in UP for carrying country-made pistol

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A woman was arrested at Mainpuri in eastern Uttar Pradesh on Tuesday for possessing an illegal country-made pistol.</p>
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Police confirmed on Wednesday that the accused, identified as Karishma Singh Yadav, is employed as a teacher in a school in Firozabad. "She had gone to Mainpuri yesterday because of some work," they explained.</p>
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A video of the incident shows a female constable frisking her and taking out a 315 bore country-made pistol from the pocket of the blue jeans she was wearing.</p>
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Mainpuri SP Ajay Kumar said police received a tip-off about the movement of a woman with a weapon in the Kotwali area of the city. "We then traced the woman and confronted her," he said.</p>
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She was immediately taken into custody and a case has been filed against her under relevant sections of the Indian Penal Code, police said.</p>
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Officials are interrogating her to find out why she was carrying the pistol and from where she had acquired it. </p>