JOIN US2 brothers smuggle arms from Pak, arrested
Two brothers were arrested for smuggling foreign weapons from Pakistan and supplying them in Delhi-NCR on Wednesday night, when they were making a transaction.
The arrests followed a brief shootout with police. The others involved in the transaction fled the situation, said police.
Ten foreign-made pistols and 157 live cartridges were recovered from them.
Rehan Ansari, 42, and Qurban Ansari, 45, were arrested near Indraprastha Park, near Gate 4 on Thursday.
Qurban and Rehan’s family members were involved in smuggling of foreign weapons from Pakistan and supplying them in Delhi and NCR, said police.
They were running their network by communicating with their partners through different Internet platforms.
Qurban and Rehan were brought up in Khurja in Bulandshahr district in Uttar Pradesh, police said.
They have an electric switch and socket factory named India Ceramics at Central Industrial Area in Khurja, police added.
Profit in business
About two years back, Qurban came to know that one of their relatives is in the business of smuggling weapons from Pakistan via Nepal, and supplying them across the country, said police.
After knowing that there is profit in this business, Qurban introduced Rehan to some UP-based partners and both brothers started smuggling and supplying these weapons.
Qurban and Rehan came near Indraprashta Park at 11.30 pm to deliver the weapons to their partners, police said and added that their car came first and after 10 minutes, another car arrived. They were making a transaction when police rushed towards them and they opened fire at the cops, said police.
Three cases under the Arms Act in IPC were registered against them.
A .30 pistol with four live cartridges were recovered from Qurban and one .30 pistol with three live cartridges were recovered from Rehan.
Three .22-bore pistols and one .30-bore pistol, along with 18 cartridges of .30 bore and 15 cartridges of .22 bore were recovered from the Duster car they came in.
Seventeen mobile phones and the two cars involved in supplying weapons were seized, said police.