New Delhi, Delhi Police apprehended 74 people, including four alleged members of an organised buffalo theft gang from Uttar Pradesh’s Saharanpur and seized 20 illegal firearms during a drive against organised crime in the city, officials said on Monday.
Police also arrested two men allegedly linked to a local gang working for an overseas gang and recovered two sophisticated pistols and seven live rounds from them. Four alleged members of an organised buffalo theft gang were also arrested from Saharanpur in Uttar Pradesh. The operations conducted from September 17 to 20 during a special drive against organised and street crime in Delhi’s Rohini involved around 300 police personnel, they said. During the drive, the police apprehended 28 accused and two minors in cases under the Arms Act, recovering 17 country-made pistols, three sophisticated pistols, including a Beretta pistol, 31 live cartridges and two empty cartridges. Among those arrested was a 20-year-old man allegedly associated with the Kranti gang, which, according to the police, was working for an overseas gang. Police claimed the gang had stolen more than 100 buffaloes from Rohini and Outer North districts. The drug crackdown led to the arrest of five people and seizure of 801 grams of heroin, 104 grams of morphine, 17 grams of cocaine and 30 tablets containing buprenorphine and naloxone, police said.
Along with six button-activated knives, the police also seized a car, an SUV and a scooter, they said. An Italian semi-automatic Beretta pistol, along with five live cartridges, was recovered from him, they said.
