Overview

• The August 2 raid in Bhima Pahari, Bharatpur, yielded 18 country-made pistols, multiple rifle parts and weapons-manufacturing tools buried beneath the workshop site near a lake.
• Delhi Police Crime Branch arrested alleged kingpin Bilal, 22, and his associate Sahil, 25, who are accused of supplying illicit firearms to syndicates operating in Delhi-NCR.
• Four individuals—Ravinder, Mustaq, Pawan and Rahish—were also detained in separate cases after pistols in their possession were traced back to Bilal’s network.
• Fresh Arms Act cases have been filed and forensic teams are tracing ballistic and digital evidence to map the full extent of the inter-state arms supply chain.
• Authorities say the network leveraged family ties and regional smuggling routes to scale up clandestine weapons production across Rajasthan.