Sustained pressure mounted by the Delhi Police against the gun-running syndicates has registered a whopping 1,600 per cent rise in seizure of arms and ammunition this year.
The biggest rise of 1,540 per cent was registered in seizure of ammunition, which rose from 1,264 in 2013 to 20,732 in 2014. The figures were provided by the Delhi Police Commissioner BS Bassi during his annual media briefing. The pistols, recovered by the different units of the Delhi Police, were mostly made in Khargone and Barwani districts of Madhya Pradesh. Special Cell also recently seized 35 semi-automatic pistols, which were to be distributed to various criminal gangs operating in and around the national Capital. According to the force’s Annual Report, there were 700 firearms seized from January to December 2013, but these numbers were increased with the seizure of 844 firearms till December 15 in 2014.