A 33-year-old man supplying illegal arms and ammunitions to gangsters in Delhi and its peripherals was nabbed by the Delhi Police while he was trying to flee the country to establish contacts with arms suppliers across the border.

The accused has been identified as Arun Mann a resident of village Khera Khurd in Delhi. Police said that for last six years Mann was supplying arms and ammunitions to several gangs including Jitender alias Gogi gang.

According to Sanjeev Kumar Yadav, the Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP), Special Cell, specific inputs were received that Mann is trying to flee India to contact some international arms dealers for the supply of automated arms to various gangsters in Delhi and NCR.

“Acting on the tip-off, a trap was laid and the accused was apprehended from Indira Gandhi International (IGI) airport,” said the DCP.

“During interrogation, the accused revealed that he has made bases in Delhi and adjoining areas for the convenience of supplying illegal arms to various gangsters in Delhi and NCR area. He came to know that police is looking for him following which he decided to flee to Nepal for establishing new connections with the international arms suppliers,” said the DCP.

“Interrogation also revealed that the weapons supplied by accused Mann were used in several recent criminal incidents in National Capital,” said the DCP.

“On instance of the accused, police has also recovered two sophisticated Pistols with 10 live cartridges, three semi-automatic Pistols along with 11 live cartridges and one country-made Pistol with 02 live cartridges which he had hidden in different locations across city,” said the DCP adding that further investigation is going on.