80-year-old held for smuggling firearms
The Dadar police, in a joint operation with the Anti-Terrorism Squad, Lucknow, has arrested an 80-year-old man for his alleged involvement in the arms smuggling case in UP.
Huge number of magazines and live cartridges have been seized from the accused, who is member of a local gang that supplies fire arms to anti-national and anti-social elements in UP. He will be taken to Lucknow on transit remand on Wednesday.
The accused has been identified as Alvin Disa, who was living in Salvation apartment located on NM Kale Road, in Agar Bazaar, Dadar (west). “We raided the place at around 1 pm on Tuesday after a team of four policemen from the Lucknow ATS approached us with information on Disa. He was found at home and subsequently placed under arrest. Nineteen magazines and 239 cartridges were seized from him. He will be produced in court on Wednesday for transit remand,” said Jayant Sawant, assistant police inspector of the Dadar police station.
Disa is member of an arms supplying gang whose four members Mohammed Khalid, Junaid alias Chhote, Kallu Sharma and Bimalkumar Vishkarma were arrested on April 18 in UP under relevant sections of the IPC and Indian Arms Act. Since Disa had worked in Air India as a flight engineer and retired in 1991, he used to get four privilege flights abroad every year as a former employee of the company.
“He would smuggle parcels of weapon parts from Singapore and Canada to India using his contacts at the airport. Later, these parts were assembled with the help of electronic device machines in accordance with the catalogue and sold to anti-social, anti-national elements and also to those involved in the underworld, besides proper license holders at high rates,” said Arun Kumar, additional director general, law and order, UP police.
“Disa and his gang members have been in this business for the last two years. He would charge his gang members something between `4 lakh to `12 lakh for foreign firearm parts,” police inspector T.B. Singh of Lucknow ATS said.
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