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Police nab illegal arms suppliers with 8 local-made pistols DELHI Police has arrested two members of an interstate arms supply gang who used social media platforms for their dealings, officials said on Sunday.

- UJWAL JALALI

The accused have been identified as Arvind Kumar (45) and Vinod Kumar (48) from Uttar Pradesh and eight country-made 0.32 bore pistols recovered from them, police said.

According to cops, the accused would procure the arms from Khargone in Madhya Pradesh which they supplied in Delhi-NCR.

On August 19, police received a tip-off that two arm traffickers would be reaching Agra canal road in Jaitpur to deliver a consignment of illegal fire arms, DCP (special cell) Amit Kaushik said. Based on the tip-off, a police team was formed which laid a trap near Canal road and the duo was apprehended. Eight pistols were recovered from them, DCP Kaushik said.