Two Munger-based arms dealers held
NEW DELHI: Two arms traffickers after a brief chase near Azadpur-mukundpur road were arrested on Tuesday and police have recovered 35 semiautomatic pistols from them.
The accused, identified as Munger based operatives – Mohammad Manouar (26) and Shahid Alam (21). Police also recovered 69 magazines as well as four live cartridges of .32 caliber.
According to the report, the Special Cell unit tasked with investigating the case got information on the gang which was allegedly involved in manufacturing and supplying illegal fire arms in Delhi and NCR region. “We had received a special tipoff about the whereabouts of the accused. We also knew that Manouar had set up his operation in Delhi and eventually tracked him to Azadpur-mukundpur Road in the evening,” said an officer privy to the investigation.
However, the traffickers found out about the police and bolted towards the nearby metro line. “Manouar whipped out a pistol and fired at Head Constable Ajay. Luckily he was wearing a bullet proof jacket during the time of the shooting. The accused was eventually apprehended,” the official added.
Police, during initial investigation, claimed that Manouar revealed his involvement in this illegal trade that he has been part of since the past three years and blamed Sonu, alleged to be the kingpin of the operation for luring him into this trade. “Sonu has been operating the inter-state syndicate from Malda, West Bengal and Munger, Bihar. Manouar and Alam were assigned the task of supplying the firearms to Delhi NCR and Western UP. For past last three years, Sonu has supplied more than 600 automatic high-quality illegal pistols in Delhi, NCR and western UP. He is also suspected to be operating an arms manufacturing module,” said DCP Sanjeev Kumar Yadav. NEW DELHI: BJP MP Meenakshi Lekhi on Thursday supported JNU Vice Chancellor's demand for placing an artillery tank on the university's campus to instil a sentiment of nationalism among students. Lekhi even proposed that students should be made to take oath of nationalism in institutions like the Jawaharlal Nehru University. Raising the issue in the Lok Sabha, Lekhi rued the fact that the Vice Chancellor's demand was turned into a controversy.
She said: "On Wednesday was Kargil Divas, and we remember our martyrs on this day. In a university like JNU, where the Vice Chancellor asked for a tank to be put on display, that was made into a controversy by some people."
She said JNU students should take the following oath: "Whether we are alive or not, Mother, your glory shall live... the glory of Bharat Mata and our nationalism should always live." She said there were old aircraft on display in the school where her children studied, and they loved playing around them.
"Even after growing up, they would go to see the aircraft on display at the Air Force bases... The sentiment of nationalism is gained only by understanding the nation," the MP said.
"These institutions are run on government money and if there are separatist sloganeering, or slogans like 'India will be broken' are raised, I think somewhere there is a problem with the administration and ideology."
"If someone tries to change that, which is the Vice Chancellor (in this case), it is converted into an issue of nationalism," she said.