Punjab Police busts major weapons supply ring, five arms smugglers arrested 

Punjab police on Thursday busted an illegal arms supply ring and arrested five people in Mohali. The accused have been identified as Deepak Singh from Ambala in Haryana, Vikrant Panwar from Uttar Pradesh, Rahul from Amritsar, Buta Khan, and Ravinder Singh from Punjab. Police have recovered 24 illegal weapons from the possession of the accused during the arrest. Mohali Police carried out the operation. 

Police say they received information that a weapon smuggling gang was operated by a foreign handler. According to the cops, a man named Prince Chauhan was providing the directions for smuggling of weapons to Punjab and Haryana-based gangsters. Chauhan allegedly operated this gang from Canada and was in direct contact with Deepak. Weapons were provided to A-category gangsters to execute plans in Haryana and Punjab.  

Mohali SSP Sandeep Garg said police have arrested Deepak after receiving information from sources after which Deepak allegedly disclosed his network to law enforcement. The police official said the gang members were nabbed after Deepak disclosed the names in his interrogation. 

Vikrant, another gang member who was arrested, is allegedly the main supplier of the gang and is accused to have supplied 200 weapons to Punjab on directions of Prince. Rahul, Buta, and Ravinder were lodged in different jails in Punjab and ran their network from inside the jails, police said. The SSP said that the trio recruited others for the delivery of weapons to gangsters. He added that police are further investigating the case to unfold the network and to find out the chain of their gang members.

"The gang was handled by Canada-based gangster Prince Chauhan who directed the members for the delivery of weapons. UP-based Vikrant arranges weapons and further, Rahul, Buta, and Ravinder supply the weapons through new recruits from inside jails. The interrogation of the arrested accused will unfold the names of other gang members and gangsters who were getting the delivery of weapons from them," SSP Mohali Sandeep Garg said.