2 held with pistols, bulletproof jacket
Mohali, December 7
Sleuths of the CIA staff of the Mohali police have arrested two persons and recovered two country-made pistols, seven live cartridges and a bulletproof jacket from their possession.
The suspects have been identified as Aiman (33), a resident of Libaspur near Delhi, and Khush Kumar, alias Bholu (20), a resident of Amritsar. They were produced before a court, which remanded them to police custody. The police said Aiman was arrested from Phase 6 here. During checking, the police recovered a .32 bore country-made pistol and five live cartridges from his possession. A case under Sections 25, 54 and 59 of the Arms Act was registered against him at the Phase 1 police station.
The police said Khush was arrested during checking at Kharar. A .315 bore country-made pistol, two live cartridges and a bulletproof jacket were recovered from his possession. A case under the Arms Act has been registered at the Kharar police station.
During preliminary investigation of the suspects, it came to fore that various cases under the NDPS Act, extortion, Section 307 of the IPC and the Arms Act had been registered against them at various police stations. Six cases under the Arms Act were already registered against Aiman in Shalimar Bagh, Mukherjee Nagar, Adarsh Nagar and Hazrat Nizamuddin in Delhi. Two cases were already registered against Khush at the Keema Wala Gate police station and Sultanwind police station, Amritsar, under the NDPS Act, Arms Act and Section 379-B of the IPC. — TNS
