Delhi: Huge cache of arms seized at IGI airport ;

In one of the biggest arms haul at Delhi's IGI Airport, customs official seized 31 firearms from a 24-yearold Delhi businessman who had de-boarded from a Hyderabad-Delhi-Chicago flight on Tuesday.
Officials said the arrested businessman had with him 21 pistols and 10 revolvers and was caught when he tried to cross the green channel. Initial investigation has revealed that the accused was just a carrier whose job was to hand over the consignment to another person in Kalkaji in southeast Delhi.
Delhi Police is suspecting a gun racket involving highprofile people, including businessmen, who were probably the patrons.

 

 

"Amandeep Singh reached Delhi by Air India flight AI-127 from Hyderabad. This puts a question mark on airport security within the country, as he reached the Capital with the firearms. We do not know from where the arms were procured but it is intriguing to know that the flight in which he arrived from Hyderabad was to leave for Chicago on Tuesday," a senior Delhi police official said.

The officer added that the arms were in a stroller baggage and the accused was trying to skip the green channel when the customs officials stopped him for questioning. Officials said the firearms were of different models of pistols and revolvers and can't be imported. During his interrogations, the accused claimed he was just a carrier of the consignment and was to receive Rs.20,000 for safely handing over the same to a man in Delhi.