{"id":44161,"date":"2025-06-06T14:33:08","date_gmt":"2025-06-06T14:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/punjabenews.com\/?p=44161"},"modified":"2025-06-06T14:33:08","modified_gmt":"2025-06-06T14:33:08","slug":"cross-border-arms-smuggling-network-busted-in-amritsar-two-held-with-eight-pistols","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/punjabenews.com\/English\/punjab\/cross-border-arms-smuggling-network-busted-in-amritsar-two-held-with-eight-pistols\/","title":{"rendered":"CROSS-BORDER ARMS SMUGGLING NETWORK BUSTED IN AMRITSAR; TWO HELD WITH EIGHT PISTOLS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Amritsar News: Amidst the ongoing drive to make Punjab a safe and secure state as per the directions of Chief Minister Bhagwant Singh Mann, Counter Intelligence (CI) Amritsar has busted a cross-border illegal arms smuggling module with links to Pakistan and arrested two of its operatives, said Director General of Police (DGP) Punjab Gaurav Yadav on Friday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Those arrested have been identified as Sukhchain Singh, a resident of Daoke in Amritsar and Jugraj Singh, a resident of village Bhakna Kalan in Amritsar. Police teams have also recovered eight sophisticated pistols\u2014 three 9MM Glock, four Px5, and one .30 bore pistol\u2014 from their possession, besides, impounding their black Splendor motorcycle (PB02DC1197) being used for transporting the consignments.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>DGP Gaurav Yadav said that preliminary investigations have revealed that the accused were acting under the directions of Pakistan-based smuggler identified as Noor, a resident of Manihala in Pakistan, who has been using drones to drop weapon consignments from across the border. The arrested accused were further distributing the arms to gangsters across Punjab with intention to fuel criminal activities in the state, he said.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Sharing operation details, the DGP said that CI Amritsar has received specific intelligence about retrieval of weapon consignment from near village Bhaini Rajputtan in the jurisdiction of Gharinda in Amritsar.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Acting swiftly, police teams have intercepted duo on Amritsar-Attari GT Road near Khasa in Amritsar, when they were going to deliver the consignment on their motorcycle, and recovered weapons from their possession, he said, while adding that further investigations are underway to uncover the network\u2019s backward and forward linkages.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>A case FIR No. 34 dated 05.06.2025 under sections 25, 25(1)(A) and 25(1)(B) of the Arms Act and section 61(2) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) has been registered at Police Station SSOC, Amritsar.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amritsar News: Amidst the ongoing drive to make Punjab a safe and secure state as per the directions of Chief Minister Bhagwant Singh Mann, Counter Intelligence (CI) Amritsar has busted a cross-border illegal arms smuggling module with links to Pakistan and arrested two of its operatives, said Director General of Police (DGP) Punjab Gaurav Yadav [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":44162,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","category-punjab"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>CROSS-BORDER ARMS SMUGGLING NETWORK BUSTED IN AMRITSAR; 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