Gurugram Police has arrested a person and seized one country-made pistol and 141 live cartridges from his possession on Monday. The accused is a brother of gangster Anil Ganja. The Gurugram Police had filed a case on November 9, last year against the gangster and his aides at Rajendra Park police station under various sections of the Indian Penal Code (IPC).
The accused has been identified by the police as Sunil alias lala, a resident of Bahadurgarh in Jhajjar district of Haryana. Following a tip-off, the accused was arrested from Ganaur (Sonipat) on June 19. Police recovered one county-made pistol along with 141 live cartridges. Apart from this, 87 cartridges of 12 bore, 4 cartridges of 315 bore and 50 cartridges of 7.65 mm were also recovered, said a police officer.
The firearms were recovered from a farm land owned by the accused. Besides that, the culprits told the police that he had supplied 9 mm automatic carbine to another accomplice Shakti alias Sharda who has also been arrested and yet to recover the alleged weapon.
Police have already arrested three accused in the said case on November 8, 2016. The accused persons were identified as Shakti alias Sharda, Kusal alias Kimi and Gaurav.
The culprits revealed to the police that they had to hide their weapon under Sunil’s observation at that time. The gang was involved in kidnapping cases, police said.
“We had received an information about the accused and nabbed him on Monday night. We seized a lot of ammunition from his possession. We will try to get information from where they got the weapons and ammunitions,” ACP (crime), Ranvir Singh, said.