After massive recovery of arms and ammunition in Jawahar Bagh of Mathura during the violent clashes with illegal occupants that led to 27 deaths, the Delhi police will investigate flow of arms into th
After massive recovery of arms and ammunition in Jawahar Bagh of Mathura during the violent clashes with illegal occupants that led to 27 deaths, the Delhi police will investigate flow of arms into the national capital from Mathura.
The Delhi police had earlier investigated illegal arms hubs in Bihar’s Munger and those in Khargone, Barwani and Dhar districts of Madhya Pradesh.
Since the last few months, a team of the Delhi police’s special cell has been entrusted with the task of gathering inputs on the flow of arms from Mathura in Uttar Pradesh, a senior police official said.
Earlier this week, the Delhi police had arrested a gunrunner connected to the Mathura module and seized 27 locally fabricated semi-automatic pistols from his possession.
The Mathura module of the arms suppliers gains prominence following the massive clash between police and members of a sect who had encroached on government land in Mathura, which left 27 persons dead.
The members of the cult-like sect had gathered massive amount of arms and ammunition.
The police recovered 47 country-made pistols, six rifles, 178 live cartridges, 15 four wheelers and 6 two-wheelers from the site of the clashes. However, the source of the supply of these arms and ammunition is yet to be ascertained.
Munger came on the Delhi police special cell’s radar in 2012, followed by a series of raids that led to the recovery of the AK-47 replicas. Then came Khargone and later Mewat in Haryana. The Mewat module, however, had little expertise in replicating semi-automated arms, the official said.
