Delhi Police Special Cell arrested a key member of an inter-State gun suppliers’ gang along with a cache of firearms, which was to be delivered to a contact in the national Capital, police said on Saturday.
Rajpal Singh, 35, was arrested on Wednesday evening after a brief scuffle with Delhi Police’s special cell officers near a Delhi Transport Corporation depot in south Delhi’s Nizamuddin area.
“We arrested Rajpal on a tip-off and recovered a bag from his possession carrying 30 semi-automatic pistols, one carbine and five live cartridges. The firearms were to be delivered to his contact in Delhi,” Deputy Commissioner of Police (Special Cell) Sanjeev Yadav said.