A few days before polling in national Capital, Special Cell of Delhi Police sleuths arrested four arms traffickers in two operations.
With their arrest police have busted two inter-state modules of illegal arms and ammunitions supplier operating in Western Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, Rajasthan and Delhi-NCR. Police have also recovered 65 country made pistols with 60 cartridges from the possession of the accused.
In first operation, two illegal arms traffickers identified as Bachu Singh (55), a resident of resident of Gonda District in Aligarh UP and (2) Ajay Salve (35) a resident of Bhikangaon in District Khargone of Madhya Pradesh (MP) were arrested by Delhi Police on April 29.
“Acting on specific inputs the duo was arrested from T-point Mathura Road in Delhi along with 35 country made pistols of .32 bore calibre and 60 live cartridges,” said Pramod Singh Kushwaha, the Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP), Special Cell.
“During interrogation the accused Bachu Singh disclosed that Bachchu Singh along with his associates had opened his own illegal arms factory at his farm in the village and his factories were busted twice by the local police with huge recovery of illegal firearms. Thereafter, he started procuring illegal firearms from Khargone and other places in Madhya Pradesh to supply in local areas as well as Western UP and Delhi-NCR. He has come over dozens of times to Delhi and delivered hundreds of illegal weapons with ammunitions to receivers,” said the DCP.
“The accused Bachu Singh further disclosed that Ajay was his carrier who used to charge per pistol to be transported from village Selda, Satvada, Sakherkhedi, Sighnoor of Bhikangaon, District Khargaon MP to desired places as told by him,” said the DCP.
In second operation, acting on specific inputs Delhi Police have arrested Ranjit Singh alias Neetu Jaat (25) a resident of Mohalla Kayast Para, Dhaulpur (Rajasthan) on the intervening night of April 28-29 near Bus Stand ISBT, Sarai Kale Khan, Delhi along with 20 pistols, of which 4 are semi-automatic and 16 are single shot pistols. While on instance of Neetu, his associate Nakshe Lal (21) who is a resident of Sajhajipur in Mainpuri was arrested on May 1 from Mainpuri along with eight country made single shot pistols, one country made
semi automatic pistol, one country made small gun and a magazine.
“During interrogation the accused Neetu revealed that he used to procure these fire arms from an MP based gunrunner of Khargone and from a gun-runner of District Mainpuri (UP). He further disclosed that after collecting the firearms, he used to further supply the same in various parts of North India, including Uttar Pradesh, Delhi, Haryana and Rajasthan,” said the DCP.
“Neetu also disclosed that, two days earlier, he had collected a consignment of firearms from a contact of Khargone (MP) based gunrunner and had come to Delhi to deliver these firearms to his Delhi based counterparts,” said the DCP adding that accused Nakshe Lal was indulge in supplying of illegal arms and ammunition in Delhi and its peripherals for last two years.
In its tirade against firearms suppliers, Special Cell has busted 6 syndicates of gun runners this year and has recovered 262 semi automatic pistols, 35 single shot pistols, one revolver, 12 spare magazines and 244 live cartridges.