Cross-border arms smuggling module busted in Punjab, 1 arrested

The Punjab Police on Sunday busted a cross-border arms smuggling module with links to Pakistan following an arrest of one person. Five pistols were recovered from the arrested individual, director general of police Gaurav Yadav said in a statement. The accused has been identified as Sandeep Singh, a resident of the Khalra village in Tarn Taran. The recovered weapons include four .30 bore pistols along with magazines and one 9MM pistol along with magazine. Police teams have also impounded his Royal Enfield (Bullet) motorcycle being used for transporting the consignments.

The DGP said the counterintelligence wing of Amritsar police had received a specific input about movement of a huge consignment of illegal weapons from Indo-Pak border area near Khalra village. Acting swiftly, police team of CI-Amritsar intercepted accused Sandeep near village Thatha in Tarn Taran when he was going to deliver the consignment to some party. A first information report (FIR) has been registered under sections 25 and 25(1)(a) of the Arms Act and section 61(2) (criminal conspiracy) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) at Police Station State Special Operation Cell, Amritsar, said the DGP.

In Amritsar, after detecting suspicious drone movement near village Daoke, alert BSF personnel launched an intensive search, recovering 12 packets of heroin weighing 6,638 kg from agricultural fields. In another midnight operation in Ferozepur, BSF troops seized a pistol, magazine and four live rounds from fields near village Gandu Kilcha, preventing a possible arms-linked incident.