Delhi Police has achieved great success. The Special Cell has busted a major interstate espionage and arms smuggling module. This module was being operated by Pakistan’s intelligence agency ISI. Police have arrested 11 gang members from Delhi and Punjab. Foreign and country made pistols, live cartridges and many suspicious SIM cards have also been seized. There have been shocking revelations in the preliminary inquiry.
According to Delhi Police, two teams of Special Cell have dismantled a network which had installed CCTV cameras in many areas of the country with the help of ISI. They also had plans for arms smuggling and grenade attack. They installed CCTVs running on solar energy, whose feed was going to Pakistan. Videography has also been done at many places, which has been sent out. People from Punjab and Delhi have been caught, they used arms smuggling to install CCTV. There was no recording in these cameras. The handlers sitting in Pakistan watched the live feed. The place where the camera was installed in Bikaner was the main route of army movement.
According to the information, unemployed youth were being lured into getting CCTV installed. Investigation has revealed that along with arms smuggling, their preparation was also for drug trafficking. Atul Rathi, caught from Delhi, was involved in arms smuggling. They used social media apps to talk to each other.
The Crime Branch of Delhi Police had recently busted an arms smuggling module linked to Pakistan, Nepal and Bangladesh and arrested 10 smugglers. A cache of 21 foreign-made sophisticated weapons and 200 cartridges were recovered from the accused. These included sub-machine guns and automatic pistols. Shahbaz Ansari, resident of Bulandshahr, Uttar Pradesh, is the leader of this module. He is an inter-state arms smuggler who is allegedly accused of supplying illegal weapons to criminal gangs operating in Northern India, especially Delhi-NCR, Uttar Pradesh and adjacent states. He used to source illegal arms and ammunition from Pakistan and smuggle them into India through Nepal border.