Delhi Police has arrested two persons, including the alleged gang leader, for supplying illegal arms and ammunition to various persons here and recovered weapons and cartridges from them.
Saurabh, 24, a resident of Dasna in Ghaziabad and Vinay Pawar, 23 who is from Jagatpuri in Delhi, were arrested yesterday at Karkari Mor in east Delhi where they had come in a car to deliver the consignment of arms to a local conduit of a gangster, police said.
A police team laid a trap acting on a tip off that the gang and its members, involved in trafficking of sophisticated weapons to criminals here, would visit east Delhi, they said.
The criminals were stopped and overpowered after a brief scuffle, they said, adding a 9 mm carbine machine gun, 8 pistols, a revolver, and 38 live cartridges of different bore were recovered from them.
The sophisticated weapons recovered were procured by them from eastern Uttar Pradesh and Munger in Bihar.
A case under relevant sections of the IPC and the Arms Act has been lodged against them, police said, efforts were on to arrest their accomplices.
