New Delhi: Three suspected members of an inter-state gang that allegedly supplied sophisticate arms in Delhi have been arrested here, the police said today.
Police have seized 18 pistols from them and a car that was used for concealing arms, they said.
The Delhi Police’s Special Cell has seized 378 illegal pistols along with 112 spare magazines, five carbines, 635 live cartridges so far this year.
As part of their operation against arms suppliers, the police arrested Shiv Singh alias Shiva (25), Mangal Singh (24) and Ravi (20), all residents of Dholpur in Rajasthan.
It was learnt yesterday that the arms suppliers belonging to Rajasthan would come here to deliver a consignment.
The accused were nabbed near the DDA Park in northeast Delhi’s Yamuna Khadar area, said P S Kushwah, Deputy Commissioner of Police (Special Cell).
During interrogation, the accused revealed that they had been involved in the supply of illegal arms for the last four to five years, he added.
Shiv Singh has previously been arrested in several cases under the Arms Act. The gang had supplied around 500 pistols in NCR and western UP, the officer said.
They used to procure the illegal pistols from Khargone in Madhya Pradesh, for Rs 6,000 and sell them to prospective buyers for Rs 20,000 or more, the DCP said.
Shiv Singh had lured Mangal Singh and Ravi into the gang by telling them that they could earn easy money by selling arms, the police said.
The gang had procured the pistols from one Fauzi in Khargone, and had come to supply these to their associates in Delhi.
Efforts are being made to identify their associates in NCR, Rajasthan and other parts of western Uttar Pradesh, said the DCP.
PTI