Delhi Police’s Special Cell (anti-terrorist unit) on Friday claimed to have arrested two gunrunners and recovered 31 country-made pistols from them. They were intercepted on the basis of a specific information that the gang was in touch with criminals and gangsters active in the Delhi and National Capital Region. The seized weapons were meant to be supplied to the gangs.
Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) Special Cell, Sanjeev Kumar Yadav said, “Mohammad Azam Saifi, 52, and his accomplice Akbar, 28, are natives of Uttar Pradesh's Meerut, and were arrested during raids in Delhi and Meerut on Tuesday and Thursday”.
“Akbar was arrested on a tip-off on Tuesday when he visited east Delhi's loni flyover area to deliver a consignment of illegal firearms to a contact Akram. Akbar was asked to surrender but he pulled out a pistol in a bid to escape but was overpowered,” As many as 24 more pistols concealed in a cloth were seized from him”, Yadav said.
“Akbar told police that he worked as a courier for a gang led by Saifi who, he said, was a blacksmith and manufactured illegal firearms at his Meerut residence. Police raided Azam's residence and arrested him,” Yadav said. Six countrymade pistols along with a drilling machine and tools used in the manufacture of illegal firearms were seized from Saifi.