Overview
- Amritsar Commissionerate Police apprehended seven suspects and recovered 15 pistols, including nine Glock 9mm and six .30-bore weapons, in an intelligence-led operation.
- Preliminary findings indicate the group communicated with a Pakistan-based handler via social media to procure and distribute illegal firearms across Punjab.
- FIRs were registered at the Cantonment police station in Amritsar, and investigators are tracing both backward sources and forward distribution networks.
- A separate Counter Intelligence operation a day earlier led to the arrest of three men near Gurdwara Baba Mohri Ji at Chogawan and the seizure of nine pistols with magazines.
- In that earlier case, police say the consignment was retrieved near Bhindi Aulakh along the Indo–Pak border, was reportedly delivered by drones, and was intended for Sherpreet Singh alias Gulaba, an associate of gangster Jobanjit Singh; a case was filed under the Arms Act and Section 61(2) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita.