A 26-year-old wanted gangster of an inter-State gang allegedly involved in smuggling of illegal weapons and ammunition was arrested by the Special Cell of Delhi Police from Jhansi in Uttar Pradesh on Thursday.
According to police, the accused has been identified as Salman (26), carrying a reward of Rs 1 lakh, was arrested following a tip-off.
“With the recent arrest of the criminals we had discovered many sophisticated illegal fire arms and ammunitions from their possession. With the help of the information we understood that several gangs are indulging in supply of illegal weapons to the criminals of Delhi and NCR,” said P.S Kushwah, Deputy Commissioner of Police (Special Cell)
In order to cut this supply of illegal fire arms a special drive has been launched by Special Cell against arms traffickers.
“We succeeded in busting several interstate arms syndicates when two arms supplier namely Kailash and Madhav Rawal were arrested. We managed to recover more than 650 pistols, one carbine, 4 modified carbines, 20 country made guns, 6,500 cartridges in the recent past,”Kushwah added.
During interrogation, Kailash and Madhav disclosed that Salman was a major supplier of arms and ammunitions to the criminals of Delhi, NCR, Agra, Jhansi, Orai, Jalon, Dhaulpur etc.
“A team was formed based on the information and Salman was nabbed. Police have recovered 20 sophisticated illegal pistols along with 100cartridges of 7.65 bore and .32 bore,” said a senior police officer.
During interrogation, Salman disclosed that after leaving studies he joined a gang of arms supplier. He has been purchasing sophisticated fire arms and ammunitions from Khargone and Dhar through agents.
“From the past three years, he had started his own interstate gang and was supplying arms and ammunitions to the criminals at a cost of Rs 15-20 thousand,” Kushwah added.
Police have managed to recover a total of 37 Sophisticated Semi-automatic pistols and nine spare magazines while they are hunting for the other members of the gang.