Fact Check: Old, Unrelated Visuals Of Showing Cache of Arms Falsely Linked To Recent Raid In Lucknow

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On 26 June 2025, the police busted an illegal arms manufacturing gang in Malihabad, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh (here, here, here). The accused in this case, Hakim Salahuddin, was reported to have been running a clinic in Malihabad and was smuggling illegal firearms from his house. The police seized six pistols, seven airguns, a rifle, over 150 cartridges (some news reports put the figure as 3000-50,000), Rs 2000 in cash and a deer skin from Salahudd…