NEW DELHI: A 34-year-old guy was detained for allegedly providing prohibited guns to members of a group, authorities said Wednesday.
The arrest follows three members of this”Santro group” were screened due to their alleged participation in string of crimes, such as robbery-cum-murder, dedicated within a period of a couple of hours at a night at the federal capital, they stated.
Accused arms provider Sonu Panwar alias Baba Khan has been detained in Baghpat district of Uttar Pradesh on Tuesday, authorities said, adding he’s also been discovered previously involved at a 2009 situation of attempt to murder enrolled at Kotwali police station in the nation.
Last week, Delhi Police had detained three men, recognized as Rizwan (28), Shamshad (29) and Nasir (20), most inhabitants of Loni at Ghaziabad, by Garhmukteshwar from Uttar Pradesh for allegedly committing a spate of robberies in one night at the federal capital.
One of the four cases filed against them, you has been a robbery-cum-murder instance, authorities said.
According to the authorities, they detained Panwar depending on the revelation created by Rizwan through interrogation.
He’d informed him he had bought his own pistol out of a guy located in Ahera village of Baghpat district at UP for Rs 45,000.
Rizwan also revealed that after committing the offense that he returned to the pistol into the arms provider and requested him to substitute as it had been having some mistake whilst shooting, authorities said.
Deputy Commissioner of Police (Northwest Delhi) Usha Rangnani stated”A group of staff was contained that tracked the arms provider through intelligence.
Subsequently, a trap had been placed in Ahera village of Baghpat district subsequently, the arms provider recognized as Sonu Panwar had been nabbed on Tuesday.” “The accused acknowledged he had provided the firearm into Rizwan to get a sum of Rs 45,000 plus a couple of days ago, Rizwan had returned exactly the exact same to him stating that there had been a mistake whilst shooting from your pistol.
The firearm used by Rizwan throughout the (robbery) episodes was recovered from his possession,” he explained.
Even the”Santro group” members were included in string of crimes in one night, such as robbery-cum-murder of a truck driver, even in Punjabi Bagh region during the night of June 7-8.
The identical night, the group dedicated an additional robbery at gunpoint and tried two more in various regions throughout the town, according to the authorities.
The stolen car employed in the commission of this offense has been recovered by the group members in burnt state, the authorities said.
Man held for Providing arms to gang members
