A 27-year-old man, disguised as balloon seller, was arrested from West Delhi’s Jaffarpur Kalan in Dwarka area for supplying firearms to gangsters in Delhi and NCR, Delhi Police said on Saturday, adding that 20 pistols and nine bullets were recovered from his possession.
The police got a tip-off that that Mufeed, a resident of Mathura district in Uttar Pradesh, will come to Delhi on Friday to supply firearms and can be trapped near Ghummanhera Mod here, a senior police officer said.
A man carrying a bag on his back and holding a few balloons in his hand was spotted near the place. At first, he appeared to be a regular balloon seller, the officer said.
When the police asked him to surrender for search, the man started running. He let go off the balloons and brought out a pistol from the bag and waived it at the police, the police officer added.
Deputy Commissioner of Police (Dwarka) Santosh Kumar Meena said the man was overpowered and on checking his bag, 19 new pistols were recovered along with nine packets of balloons.
During interrogation, the accused said he had been supplying illegal firearms in Delhi/NCR from Burhanpur in MP. He has been disguising as balloon seller and carried packets of balloons to dodge the police, the DCP said.