Dhaka: A suspected arms peddler with firearms and bullets has been arrested at Dakkhin Pirerbag Vanga Bridge area at Mirpur in Dhaka.

‘Members of Serious Crime Investigation Robbery Prevention unit of Dhaka Metropolitan Police yesterday [on Tuesday] arrested Mohammad Abul Hasem Hasu, 33, with a foreign revolver, a single-barrel wooden gun, six bullets and three cartridges,’ said a DMP release received in Dhaka on Wednesday.

During the primary interrogation Hasu confessed his offences, the release added.

A case was filed with the Mirpur police in this connection.