Police on Wednesday busted a cross-border arms’ smuggling module with the arrest of two of its members, together with a prisoner.

Police additionally recovered 10 foreign-made pistols, together with 5 .30 bore (made in China) and 5 9mm (made in USA Beretta), together with eight spare magazines.

The two accused have been recognized as Jaskaran Singh of Bhikhiwind in Tarn Taran, at present lodged at Goindwal Sahib sub-jail, and Rattanbir Singh of Khemkaran in Tarn Taran, who’s out on bail. Police have additionally recovered a cell phone which Jaskaran was utilizing from contained in the jail.

AIG counter intelligence (CI), Amritsar, Amarjit Singh Bajwa mentioned Jaskaran was introduced on manufacturing warrant in a drug case, which was registered at Amritsar in August 2022.

During questioning, he confessed that he was utilizing a cell phone in jail to contact Pakistan-based smugglers via WhatsApp for smuggling of narcotics, arms and ammunition with the assistance of drones.

For this, Jaskaran was taking the assistance of Rattanbir, who used to retrieve the consignments dropped by way of drones from totally different border areas. Pertinently, Rattanbir can also be a co-accused in varied NDPS circumstances with Jaskaran Singh.

AIG Bajwa mentioned {that a} consignment of 5 .30 bore pistols, together with 4 spare magazines, was recovered from places revealed by Jaskaran at Pidhi village on Taran Taran-Ferozepur Road, which was hid by Rattanbir on the intervening night time of September 28 and 28 .

Bajwa mentioned that performing on Jaskaran’s inputs, police groups managed to arrest Rattanbir from Khemkaran and on his disclosure, 5 extra pistols of 9mm have been recovered together with 4 spare magazines, which have been hid close to a drain at Machhike village in Khemkaran.

A case below Sections 25 of the Arms Act has been registered at SSOC police station, Amritsar.