Ghaziabad (UP), February 21 A sword and a locally made pistol were recovered from the office of sand trader Sudhir Rathi during a search, conducted in connection with the mysterious death of his servant, an officer said on Saturday.
Rathi was arrested on Friday for unlawful possession of weapons.
The sand trader confessed to keeping weapons to intimidate the public and maintain his dominance in the area, ACP (Loni) Siddhartha Gautam said.
Regarding the death, he said that his 40-year-old servant, Vicky, shot himself with a licensed firearm.
On Wednesday, Vicky was found dead on the ground floor of Rathi's office-cum-residence.
