Pak-based smuggler’s operative arrested with five pistols

The Counter Intelligence (CI) wing of the Amritsar police has arrested an operative linked to a Pakistan-based smuggling network and recovered five sophisticated pistols from his possession.

Director General of Police (DGP), Punjab, Gaurav Yadav said the arrested individual, identified as Bharatpreet Singh, a resident of Marhi Megha village in Tarn Taran district, was working on the directions of a Pakistan-based arms smuggler. The smuggler had been using drones to deliver weapon consignments across the International Border into state areas.

The police recovered five pistols from Bharatpreet Singh’s possession, including two 9 mm, two .30 bore, and one .32 bore pistols, and impounded a Splendor motorcycle used to transport the illegal arms. The DGP said the recovered weapons were meant to be supplied to criminal elements and gangsters, aiming to disturb peace and harmony in the region.

Providing further details, the DGP said the CI team had received inputs regarding a drone, delivered consignment near Daliri village in Tarn Taran. The accused was intercepted by police teams on the Ibban-Mulechak road in Amritsar while he was en route to deliver the arms to another contact.

An FIR has been registered under relevant sections of the Arms Act and the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) at the State Special Operation Cell police station in Amritsar.