2 illegal arms suppliers arrested, country-made pistols seized

Delhi Police today claimed to have busted an inter-state syndicate of illegal arms suppliers with arrest of two persons and recovery of 20 country-made pistols and six live cartridges from them.
Prem Pal Singh (62) and Avnesh Babu (20) have been arrested and a case under relevant sections of the Arms Act has been registered against them, Ravindra Yadav, joint commissioner of police (Crime), said.
With the rise in the use of illegal firearms by criminals, the Crime Branch has been taking action against the gangs supplying illegal arms in Delhi, he said.
Yesterday, police received information that Prem Pal, leader of one of the syndicates operating in Uttar Pradesh, will be coming to deliver a huge consignment of arms to one of his contacts near Ganda Nala in Najafgarh, Yadav said.

A trap was laid and he was arrested with a rucksack bag that contained 20 firearms and six live cartridges, said the officer.
He said Singh led them to Avnesh Babu, who was supposed to receive the consignment. Babu was arrested today from Kakrolla village in Dwarka, he said.
During interrogation, Pal said he had made contacts with arms suppliers in Madhya Pradesh and in Uttar Pradesh.
"Pal had been arrested in 2014 in Delhi along with two other persons with eight illegal pistols. He used to get the weapons at Rs 10,000 per pistol from suppliers in UP and MP and sell them around Rs 15,000 per piece through Babu thus earning around Rs 5,000 on each transaction," said Yadav.