{"id":54457,"date":"2025-11-04T19:30:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/punjabenews.com\/English\/?p=54457"},"modified":"2025-11-04T20:11:16","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T14:41:16","slug":"two-ak-series-assault-rifles-one-sophisticated-pistol-recovered-from-near-indo-pak-border-in-amritsar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/punjabenews.com\/English\/punjab\/two-ak-series-assault-rifles-one-sophisticated-pistol-recovered-from-near-indo-pak-border-in-amritsar\/","title":{"rendered":"TWO AK-SERIES ASSAULT RIFLES, ONE SOPHISTICATED PISTOL RECOVERED FROM NEAR INDO-PAK BORDER IN AMRITSAR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">PROMPT AND ALERT ACTION TAKEN HAS AVERTED A MAJOR INCIDENT: DGP GAURAV YADAV*<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Amritsar News:<\/span> In a major breakthrough amidst the ongoing drive to make Punjab a safe and secure state as per directions of Chief Minister Bhagwant Singh Mann, Amritsar Rural Police has busted a Cross-Border Arms Smuggling Module with links to Pakistan and recovered a cache of sophisticated weapons and huge quantity of ammunition from village Ghonewal, near the Ravi river close to the Indo-Pak border, said Director General of Police (DGP) Punjab Gaurav Yadav here on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The recovered arms and ammunition include two AK-series assault rifles along with eight magazines, one .30 bore pistol along with two magazines and 50 live cartridges of .30 bore and 245 live cartridges of 7.62 mm.<\/p>\n<p>DGP Gaurav Yadav said that the prompt and alert action taken by the Punjab Police has averted a major incident, especially in view of recent inputs regarding increased activity of Pak-sponsored terrorists and inter-gang rivalries in border areas.<\/p>\n<p>The DGP said that further investigation is underway to expose the full nexus, including the backward and forward linkages of the network.<\/p>\n<p>Sharing operational details, Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Amritsar Rural Maninder Singh said that following a reliable input about the influx of consignment of sophisticated weapons from across the border, police teams have launched a combing operation in the area of village Ghonewal. During the search, a bag containing sophisticated arms and ammunition was recovered from near Ravi river adjacent to the Indo-Pak border, he said.<\/p>\n<p>The SSP said that a detailed investigation is on to ascertain the source as well as destination of the recovered weapons and ammunition. More recoveries and arrests are likely in coming days, he added.<\/p>\n<p>In this regard, FIR No 174 dated 04\/11\/2025 has been registered under section 25(8) of the Arms Act and section 113 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) at Police Station Ramdas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PROMPT AND ALERT ACTION TAKEN HAS AVERTED A MAJOR INCIDENT: DGP GAURAV YADAV* Amritsar News: In a major breakthrough amidst the ongoing drive to make Punjab a safe and secure state as per directions of Chief Minister Bhagwant Singh Mann, Amritsar Rural Police has busted a Cross-Border Arms Smuggling Module with links to Pakistan and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":54458,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,19,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","category-latest","category-punjab"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.2 - 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