Carbine seized from ex-MLA's killers was ordinance factory-manufactured weapon

An automatic carbine recovered from the alleged murderers of Najafgarh’s ex-MLA Bharat Singh is an ordinance factory-manufactured weapon.

This has led police to believe that the gang had connection with an arms racket which dealt in government-owned weapons.

The carbine was discovered while a Crime Branch team was examining the cache recovered from the five men arrested in the murder case on Saturday.

Apart from the automatic carbine, two pistols were seized from the gang upon their arrest.
A senior police officer from the Crime Branch revealed that the serial number of the weapon had been deliberately scratched out to conceal its make.

“The possibilities are that the weapon was either stolen from an ordinance factory, procured through an arms racket dealing in government-manufactured weapons or snatched from a policeman or some paramilitary personnel,” the officer said.

Less than a fortnight ago, police had busted a racket in which a gun house owner in UP was exploiting loopholes in the system to sell weapons and ammunition procured from legitimate factories to criminals in the city.

More details about the origin of this weapon and how it reached the hands of this gang would be known only after arresting Hemant, a suspect in the murder case who is still absconding.
The officer said questions related to this carbine would be among the first posed to Hemant, the nephew of the murder mastermind Udaiveer.

Police on Sunday had said that interrogation of the arrested suspects had revealed that the weapons for carrying out the murder were arranged by Hemant.

A hunt for Hemant is currently on in Delhi and neighbouring areas.
Investigators said he could as well be hiding in Najafgarh area itself.
Interrogation of the five arrested suspects has not thrown much light on Hemant’s whereabouts.

Hemant had allegedly convinced his uncle Udaiveer to eliminate Bharat Singh and his brother Krishan Pehalwan in order to seek revenge for his father’s killing in 2012.