ATS Gujarat busts illegal arms supply network

Gandhinagar: The Anti Terrorist Squad (ATS) of Gujarat Police has arrested 24 persons and seized 54 country-made guns.

According to Police, two main accused – Devendra Boriya and Champraj Khachar, residents of Surendranagar were on May 3 nabbed from GSRTC bus station area in Ahmedaba city with four country-made pistols in their possession that they had purchased from Madhya Pradesh. They confessed that they had sold around 100 such pistols in Saurashtra region in the last two years.

The accused would purchase each pistol for Rs. 15,000 to Rs. 20,000 and sell it for Rs. 40,000 to Rs. 1 lakh. The ATS teams nabbed 22 persons from different parts of the state in 24 hours and recovered 50 pistols from them that they had purchased from the accused.