Arms used by Britishers to be put on Display at Proposed Museum
At a celebration on Friday, officials from the Hare Street police station handed over certain British-era weapons to the office of the Administrator General and Official Trustee of West Bengal.
Sumit Dasgupta, the officer in charge of the Hare Street police station, handed over the weapons to Biplab Roy, the Administrator General and Official Trustee of West Bengal.
The British administration utilised double barrel and single barren guns, iron manufactured axes, and ‘bhojalis’ in the 18th century. For years, these weapons had been abandoned in the Hare Street police station.
Many of them are rusted and require immediate cleaning and repair.
Roy, Administrator General and Official Trustee of West Bengal said these arms will be put up at the proposed museum. “There are arms which have been stacked in old police station and they have not been used for generations. Attempts will be made to recover them and then put up in the proposed museum,” he said.
It is unclear whether the iron axes and ‘bhojalis’ were used by the police or confiscated from criminals in Kolkata. The arms will be separated, and their histories will be displayed beside them at the museum.
The office of the Administrator General and Official Trustee of West Bengal is creating an inventory of numerous things obtained from various sources, ranging from statues and idols to cash and weaponry.
In the city of pleasure, a one-of-a-kind museum and study centre for rare documents will open shortly. The museum will display the ‘rarest of the rare’ papers, including an Alexander the Great silver coin, a Mughal artwork dusted with gold dust, and Dwarkanath Tagore’s testament.
“Thousands of century-old arms are lying in the stack-yard of police stations across Bengal and we have requested the officers to hand them over to us so that we can put them up in the museum,” Roy said.
