Gwalior: Smugglers caught before selling illegal weapons

Gwalior, 06 April (Hindustan Reporter). In view of the Lok Sabha elections, the police administration is taking swift action against those doing illegal business and putting them behind the bars. The Crime Branch has caught one such gang who used to bring weapons from outside and sell them in the city and Dabra. Police have recovered ten pistols, four cartridges, an unnumbered motorcycle and other goods from the gang. Police are trying to find out from the smugglers to whom they have supplied weapons so far.

Superintendent of Police Dharamveer Singh said on Saturday that the police had received information from an informer that smugglers were coming in front of Sikaroda Tirahe Jai Gurudev Ashram to sell illegal weapons on a Bullet motorcycle without number. As soon as the information was received, Crime Branch ASP Shiyaz KM was directed to arrest the smugglers. Shiaz immediately sent a team to the spot under the leadership of Crime Branch Inspector Ajay Pawar. The team immediately reached Police Jai Gurudev Ashram on Agra Mumbai Highway. Seeing the police the youth started trying to run away. The police chased them and caught them. The identity of the arrested youths are Ramveer son of Indraveer Gurjar, 24 years resident of Jhadoli Hall, Dabra near Guptapura, Rakesh son of Kailash Gurjar, 27 years resident of village Chitauli Dabra Dehat, Harpreet alias Sonu son of Paramjat Singh, 38 years resident of village Itayal Dabra Dehat Hall Soni Ki Bagiya Chinaur Road. And Vijay Pratap alias Sonu, son of Shyamsingh Gaur, 32 years, resident of Shivganar Ghosipura.

During the search of the four youths, the police found 8 32 bore pistols, 1 30 mm pistol and one 30 bore pistol, a total of ten pistols and four cartridges from them. During police interrogation, the smugglers told that they buy illegal weapons from Punjab for Rs 10-25 thousand and sell them here for Rs 50 to 1 lakh. The police suspect that the said weapons had come to be used in the Lok Sabha but the police had already caught them. The police have registered an FIR against the smugglers under the Arms Act and started interrogating them about the weapons.