Overview

• An August shooting by a 16-year-old in Delhi’s Sarai Rohilla led police to a clandestine manufacturing site near Aligarh, where officers on September 1 found two locked rooms used to mass-produce country-made pistols.
• Three suspects were arrested in the Aligarh case — Vijay Kumar alias Bunty, Bijender Singh, and alleged operator Hanveer — after a probe that recovered six finished pistols, 12 incomplete weapons, raw material for over 250 more, and specialized machinery.
• Police said the alleged mastermind, 60-year-old Hanveer, claimed during interrogation that he had been manufacturing illegal firearms for 15–20 years and had sold more than 1,200 weapons while frequently shifting locations.
• In a parallel operation, the Bhopal Crime Branch raided illegal units in Tikamgarh district on August 31–September 1, recovering more than 100 country-made pistols, semi-finished arms, and equipment from sites in Ramgarh and Chanderi.
• Officials in Madhya Pradesh described a decades-long, family-run setup with suspected supply to neighboring states via Jhansi and said they have ruled out links to DJ Yaseen’s syndicate, with further arrests and network mapping expected.