Ghaziabad Police has arrested a national level martial art player with 17 illegally procured pistols who was found involved in arms smuggling racket. Initial investigations by police have indicates that the accused identify as Vicky Panchal is part of a bigger gang of arm-smugglers. Police will seek his custodial remand for further questioning, said Akash Tomar, the Superintendant of Police (SP) City.
Police said that Special Operations Group (SOG) under the command of SP City apprehended a suspicious person who was exiting from the Ghaziabad railway station with a heavy backpack on his shoulders.
The SOG team which was stationed near the temple outside the railway station in plan clothes, noticed a man moving under suspicious circumstances. The policemen asked him to stop for frisking for which he resisted. He was however, over powered by the police team.
He was taken to the police station where, during interrogation, he confessed his crime. Police recovered 17 pistols of .315 calibre made in a local factory. He revealed his name as Vicky Panchal son of Sahab Singh a resident of Prem Nagar loni. He further told police that he was a national level award winner of 3rd Sub-Junior level Tong-Il MOO-DO championship which was held between January 27 to 29 in Delhi. This event was organised by Tong-Il MOO-DO Association Delhi, an affiliated body of World Tong- Il MOO- DO Federation, World Police Martial Art Federation, Universal Peace Foundation and International Educational Foundation.
He revealed that his partner Ajay Kumar a resident of loni manufactured the pistols to supply in market. Ajay manufacturers in his modern plant at his hide out place in loni which are quite good quality product in underworld market. He told that the Delhi Police arrested him last week.
The suspect told the police that he was apprehending his arrest since Ajay might have revealed all possible hideouts to Delhi Police so he was on the run. But he was nabbed by the alert SOG of Ghaziabad Police.
“We are planning to take his police custody remand so that a national level arm smuggling racket could be burst” said SP City.