Ahmedabad: Anti Terrorist Squad (ATS) of Gujarat Police jointly with Jamnagar Police has nabbed Madhya Pradesh origin Balvirsinh Patva alias Balwant alias Ballu who is identified as a person from whom a notorious overseas mafia and extortionist Jayesh Patel alias Jaysukh Ranpariya and his organized gang would source firearms. Ballu who has been nabbed from Dhar district in Madhya Pradesh has confessed that he supplied over 100 small firearms in Gujarat, mainly to Jayesh Patel.

Jayesh Patel from Jamnagar, an Interpol red corner tagged criminal with 41 criminal cases of serious nature against him and wanted by India, had given a contract to Iqbal alias Bhathiya to kill one Professor Parshottam Rajani to extort ransom of Rs 1 crore. Ballu had supplied a pistol and five rounds to kill Rajani. Iqbal has been already arrested while Jayesh is still on run.