A 23-year-old man involved in several dacoity cases has been arrested by the Delhi Police with a huge cache of weapons after a shootout in Dwarka in the early hours of Monday.
DCP (Dwarka) Shankar Choudhary said the accused, identified as Deepak, used to supply arms to several gangs in the capital, including the dreaded Saddam Gauri and Vicky gangs. Police said four highly sophisticated pistols and two country-made pistols with 104 live rounds were recovered from the accused and he had brought the same from Meerut.
Officials said that after laying siege at the cremation ground in Sector 18 of Dwarka, he fired two rounds at the police party and in retaliatory firing, the police fired three rounds, injuring the left knee of the accused. “He has a bad character of Bindapur police station… the criminal is earlier involved in several dacoity/Arms Act cases,” said Mr. Choudhary.
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