{"id":301676,"date":"2025-07-07T20:59:13","date_gmt":"2025-07-07T15:29:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/?p=301676"},"modified":"2025-07-07T20:59:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-07T15:29:13","slug":"fact-check-did-lucknow-police-seize-300-firearms-and-50000-cartridges-near-police-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/fact-check-did-lucknow-police-seize-300-firearms-and-50000-cartridges-near-police-station\/","title":{"rendered":"Dainik Bhaskar, OpIndia misreport that 300 illegal firearms & 50,000 cartridges seized from Lucknow man"},"content":{"rendered":"

On June 26, Lucknow police arrested a man named Salahuddin and recovered some weapons, cartridges and equipment used to make illegal weapons. Soon after that, news outlets published reports that 300 illegal firearms and 20 sacks of a total of 50,000 cartridges were recovered from the house of the accused just before Muharram. This was also amplified by social media users, some of whom claimed that the police recovered as many as 3,000 guns.<\/span><\/p>\n

On its English website, Dainik Bhaskar reported that Lucknow police raided an illegal arms factory ahead of Muharram and seized 300 illegal weapons and 50,000 cartridges. (<\/span>Archive<\/span><\/a>)<\/span><\/p>\n

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OpIndia, which has been called for publishing misinformation and propaganda as news, also reported that a day before Muharram, the police recovered 300 firearms and 50,000 cartridges from the home of a man named Hakim Salahuddin in Lucknow. (<\/span>Archive<\/span><\/a>)<\/span><\/p>\n

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X user @MrSinha_, whose posts have been fact checked by Alt News several times, posted a picture, allegedly showing the accused standing with cops and recovered arms. \u201c3000+ guns isn’t a small number, it’s enough to arm a small army and capture an entire city… Why did Md. Salauddin have them? What was he up to? Planning something big?\u201d he posted. (<\/span>Archived link<\/span><\/a>)<\/span><\/p>\n

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Other X users, such as @SaffronChargers<\/a>, @JaipurDialogues and Sudarshan News\u2019 @KumaarSaagar<\/a> also shared similar claims of 3,000 guns and 50,000 cartridges being recovered from Hakim Salahuddin\u2019s house in Lucknow with with an image of a large cache of guns. \u201cWere they preparing for Ghazwa-e-Hind (war against India)?\u201d the users wrote. The image and claim was also shared by Harshvardhan Singh<\/a>, state general secretary of BJP’s youth wing from Uttar Pradesh.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n