Tribune News Service

Amritsar, July 17

The counter intelligence wing on Saturday got a two-day police remand of two MP weapon smugglers. They were produced in the court of Judicial Magistrate First Class here.

The police had nabbed Jeevan (19) of Jamli Gaytri Dham village and Vijay Thakur (25) of Umrypani from Sendhwan village in Barwani district of Madhya Pradesh during a special operation. The police team confiscated as many as 39 illicit weapons from their possession.

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

The counter intelligence had arrested two persons, identified as Hira Singh and Harmandeep Singh, both of Tarn Taran, after recovering three country-made pistols and ammunition from their possession on June 12 and during interrogation they 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.