Last Updated on March 25, 2026 9:08 pm by INDIAN AWAAZ
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Delhi Police Crime Branch has busted a major international arms trafficking module linked to Pakistan, Nepal and Bangladesh and arrested 10 key operatives in the Walled City area of the national capital. Talking to the media, Joint Commissioner (Crime) of Delhi Police Surendra Kumar stated that 21 high-end foreign-made weapons, including a sophisticated sub-machine gun and semi-automatic pistols, along with over two hundred live cartridges, were recovered during the operation. He said that the network was involved in smuggling arms into India through the Indo-Nepal border and supplying them to criminal gangs across Delhi-NCR and other states.
The Crime Branch said, the module was operating through a well-organised network using encrypted messaging applications, VoIP calls and frequently changing SIM cards to evade detection. It said that payments were routed through hawala channels, while handlers based in Nepal and Bangladesh coordinated the procurement of illegal arms from Pakistan. The Police said, a multi-pronged strategy involving technical surveillance, call detail analysis and human intelligence inputs was adopted to identify and track the operatives.
The Police said that, during the investigations, it was revealed that arms consignments were smuggled into India via Nepal after being transported in dismantled form and reassembled before distribution. During the operation carried out between the 13th and 24th of March, multiple raids were conducted across Delhi-NCR and Uttar Pradesh, leading to successive arrests and recoveries.
The Police said that the accused were involved in supplying weapons to organized criminal gangs engaged in serious crimes, such as contract killings and extortion. The Crime Branch said that further investigation is underway to trace other members of the network and dismantle the remaining links of the module.