Two held with 99 ‘Munger’ pistols

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Accused Niranjan Mishra and Mohammed Feroz Alam at the Delhi police HQ on Wednesday. — Bunny Smith

The special cell of the Delhi police has arrested two persons in connection with supplying illegal guns in the capital. The police has seized 99 pistols from their possession.
The police official said the accused procured weapons from Munger district in Bihar and sold them to criminal elements in Delhi and the NCR region. The police official further said they got a tip-off that a huge consignment of illegal liquor was being supplied in an Ambassador car.
The police laid a trap and intercepted the suspects travelling in an Ambassador near Shastri Park traffic signal. “Two accused Niranjan Mishra and Mohammed Feroz Alam were arrested by the police. They told the cops that they used in-built capsule cavity in the headlights of the car to supply the weapons. 99 pistols were recovered from them,” said the police official. The police said that in 2012, they arrested seven accused who used to supply illegal guns in the capital. The police shared the information with the Munger police and nine more persons were arrested by the Munger cops last year. “Army Supply only, made in USA, has been written on all the pistols,” said a police official.
The police official said both the accused have been involved in supplying illegal guns in Delhi and NCR for a couple of year. The police official said that ahead of Independence Day, they are keeping a track on goons who run gun rackets in the NCR. “We suspect that the goons used the pistols to create panic during Independence Day. We are conducing raids to catch those who wanted to buy the pistols,” said the police official.
Munger has lately emerged as the hub of contraband weapons in the country, with pistols manufactured in the illegal factories there even founding their way to Indian Mujahideen terrorists, police sources said.
“Including this catch, 147 Munger-made weapons have been seized this year by us while four interstate-gangs have been busted. Last year, 728 fire arms of different make were seized by Delhi police,” said special commissioner of police (special cell) S.N. Srivastava. “This is in line with our crime control strategy of keeping supply of illicit weapons under control for checking crimes in the national capital,” he said. Mr Srivastava said that an in-house study done on the orders of commissioner Neeraj Kumar had revealed that Munger-made weapons were used in most of the violent crimes happening in the national capital during the last 4 to 5 years.