Delhi Police Special Cell claimed to have arrested a teacher-turned-arms-smuggler for Naxals from Shanti Van, Ring Road. Special Cell was able to recover 407 cartridges of INSAS, self-loading rifles (SlR), 0.315 and 7.65 calibres, used by the paramilitary and military forces in India. His interrogation revealed that the accused supplied arms to naxalites of Garchiroli in Maharashtra.
DCP (Special Cell) P S Kushwah stated that police received information about the accused Ram Krishna Singh, after the arrest of an illegal arms supplier in May this year. Moreover, during interrogation, the arms carrier Dhirender revealed that he supplied illegal cartridges to the accused who later supplied it to active naxals in Garchiroli.
Subsequently, a team was formed and on 12th July after the Special Cell received information that the accused would be arriving near Shanti Van in the afternoon to supply a consignment of illegal cartridges to his associates. The team then laid a trap and the deployed police team was able to apprehend the accused, Kushwah stated.
In interrogation, the accused Ram Krishna Singh claimed that he has been involved in arms peddling since 2015. He was earlier a private school teacher who was lured into the trade by an arms supplier from Munger. He also revealed that he was earlier arrested by staff of Naya Ram Nagar, Munger, Bihar in an arms peddling case in 2015. The cartridges were procured from Bhojpur, Bihar whose identity is withheld for operational reasons, he stated.