Tribune News Service
Amritsar, July 14
The police claim to have busted another interstate module involved in manufacturing and supply of illegal weapons across the state with the arrest of its two members from MP.
DGP Dinkar Gupta said: “In an interstate operation, a team of the State Counter Intelligence, Amritsar, have arrested Jeevan (19) of Jamli Gaytri Dham village in MP and Vijay Thakur (25) of Umrypani in MP, from the area of Sendhwan village in Barwani MP and recovered 39 pistols (.32 bore) along with magazines from their possession.
The DGP said the Intelligence had arrested two persons identified as Hira Singh and Harmandeep Singh, both of Tarn Taran, after recovering three country-made pistols and ammunition from their possession on June 12 and during interrogation they revealed that they procured these weapons from Madhya Pradesh.
Gupta said following these inputs, a special team led by Inspector Inderdeep Singh was sent to MP to bust the entire module. He said preliminary investigations revealed that these weapons were meant to be supplied to various criminal gangs and other anti-national elements in Punjab.
Meanwhile, a case had been registered under Section 25 of the Arms Act.
The development came just four days after the Kapurthala police busted an illicit weapon supply network with the arrest of its main supplier from Barwani in MP.
MP-based illicit weapon module busted, 2 arrested
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