<p>An automatic carbine recovered from the alleged murderers of Najafgarh’s ex-MLA Bharat Singh is an ordinance factory-manufactured weapon. <br /><br /></p>.<p>This has led police to believe that the gang had connection with an arms racket which dealt in government-owned weapons.<br /><br />The carbine was discovered while a Crime Branch team was examining the cache recovered from the five men arrested in the murder case on Saturday.<br /><br />Apart from the automatic carbine, two pistols were seized from the gang upon their arrest.<br />A senior police officer from the Crime Branch revealed that the serial number of the weapon had been deliberately scratched out to conceal its make.<br /><br />“The possibilities are that the weapon was either stolen from an ordinance factory, procured through an arms racket dealing in government-manufactured weapons or snatched from a policeman or some paramilitary personnel,” the officer said.<br /><br />Less than a fortnight ago, police had busted a racket in which a gun house owner in UP was exploiting loopholes in the system to sell weapons and ammunition procured from legitimate factories to criminals in the city.<br /><br />More details about the origin of this weapon and how it reached the hands of this gang would be known only after arresting Hemant, a suspect in the murder case who is still absconding.<br />The officer said questions related to this carbine would be among the first posed to Hemant, the nephew of the murder mastermind Udaiveer. <br /><br />Police on Sunday had said that interrogation of the arrested suspects had revealed that the weapons for carrying out the murder were arranged by Hemant.<br /><br />A hunt for Hemant is currently on in Delhi and neighbouring areas.<br />Investigators said he could as well be hiding in Najafgarh area itself.<br />Interrogation of the five arrested suspects has not thrown much light on Hemant’s whereabouts.<br /><br />Hemant had allegedly convinced his uncle Udaiveer to eliminate Bharat Singh and his brother Krishan Pehalwan in order to seek revenge for his father’s killing in 2012.</p>
<p>An automatic carbine recovered from the alleged murderers of Najafgarh’s ex-MLA Bharat Singh is an ordinance factory-manufactured weapon. <br /><br /></p>.<p>This has led police to believe that the gang had connection with an arms racket which dealt in government-owned weapons.<br /><br />The carbine was discovered while a Crime Branch team was examining the cache recovered from the five men arrested in the murder case on Saturday.<br /><br />Apart from the automatic carbine, two pistols were seized from the gang upon their arrest.<br />A senior police officer from the Crime Branch revealed that the serial number of the weapon had been deliberately scratched out to conceal its make.<br /><br />“The possibilities are that the weapon was either stolen from an ordinance factory, procured through an arms racket dealing in government-manufactured weapons or snatched from a policeman or some paramilitary personnel,” the officer said.<br /><br />Less than a fortnight ago, police had busted a racket in which a gun house owner in UP was exploiting loopholes in the system to sell weapons and ammunition procured from legitimate factories to criminals in the city.<br /><br />More details about the origin of this weapon and how it reached the hands of this gang would be known only after arresting Hemant, a suspect in the murder case who is still absconding.<br />The officer said questions related to this carbine would be among the first posed to Hemant, the nephew of the murder mastermind Udaiveer. <br /><br />Police on Sunday had said that interrogation of the arrested suspects had revealed that the weapons for carrying out the murder were arranged by Hemant.<br /><br />A hunt for Hemant is currently on in Delhi and neighbouring areas.<br />Investigators said he could as well be hiding in Najafgarh area itself.<br />Interrogation of the five arrested suspects has not thrown much light on Hemant’s whereabouts.<br /><br />Hemant had allegedly convinced his uncle Udaiveer to eliminate Bharat Singh and his brother Krishan Pehalwan in order to seek revenge for his father’s killing in 2012.</p>
