In a major bust of illicit Pistol manufacturing and supply racket, the Punjab Police on Friday busted an inter-state illegal weapon smuggling module with the arrest of three Madhya Pradesh-based Arms suppliers involved in large scale illegal manufacturing and supply of weapons from MP into Punjab as well as other States.
The arrested persons have been identified as Crore Singh and Ram Singh Patwa, both residents of village Pachori at Burhanpur district in Madhya Pradesh while Chander Pal belongs to village Khakhnaar in the same district. The accused persons were arrested on 15 April by the Amritsar Rural Police during a special operation carried out at the Burhanpur district of MP.
The Police have also recovered 30 illegal Pistols including twenty-five .32 bore Pistols, five .30 bore Pistols and thirty-two magazines from the trio besides recovery of an Alto Car and a Splendor Motorcycle.
DGP Punjab Dinkar Gupta said that acting on specific inputs, a Police team from Amritsar Rural led by ASP Majitha Abhimanyu Rana and DSP Detective Gurinder Nagra arrested Crore and Chander from near the Bus Stand in Burhanpur on 10 April. Ten .32 bore Pistols and ten magazines were recovered from their possession while the third accused Ram was nabbed from near Gurudwara Badi Sangat in Burhanpur along with fifteen .32 bore Pistols, five .30 bore pistols and twenty-two magazines.
The DGP said that Ram had revealed that the weapons consignment had been supplied to him by Rahul, a notorious MP-based weapons manufacturer and smuggler, who has figured earlier also in seizures of weapons consignments by Punjab Police within the last six months. The DGP thanked DGP MP for the support provided by the Madhya Pradesh Police to the Punjab Police in carrying out the above arrests and huge weapon recoveries. DGP Punjab had personally requested DGP MP to assist in the above operation.