Tribune News Service

Amritsar, July 16

Two Madhya Pradesh-based illegal weapon suppliers will be produced in a local court on Saturday.

While busting yet another module of illegal weapon supplier from MP, the Punjab Police have nabbed Jeevan (19) of Jamli Gaytri Dham village in MP, and Vijay Thakur (25) of Umrypani in MP, from Sendhwan village, MP.

The police confiscated as many as 39 weapons from their possession. They were brought here on a transit remand.

The preliminary interrogation of the suspects revealed that they had been regular supplier to criminal elements based in Punjab, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, besides NCR. Earlier, they had admitted to have supplied over 300 illegal weapons to gangsters and other criminal elements in the last several months.

Sources in the counter intelligence pointed out that local links of the duo was being looked into. The police also identified several persons who used to take orders of weapons from Amritsar and other parts of the state and different police teams have been formed to nab them.

This was the fourth such module busted involved in supplying of illegal weapons from MP by the Punjab Police. The Amritsar (rural) police had busted two such modules while another module was busted by Kapurthala police.

The counter intelligence had arrested two persons identified as Hira Singh and Harmandeep Singh, both residents of Tarn Taran, after recovering three country-made pistols and ammunition from their possession on June 12. During interrogation, the duo had revealed that they procured these weapons from MP.

A special team led by Inspector Inderdeep Singh was sent to MP to bust the entire module. Preliminary investigations revealed that these weapons were meant to be supplied to various gangs and anti-national elements in Punjab. A case had been registered under Section 25 of the Arms Act.