Overview
- The Crime Branch, which disclosed the bust Wednesday, arrested 10 suspects and recovered 21 foreign-made firearms and about 200 cartridges.
- Police say the network routed weapons from Pakistan to West Asia, shipped them as scrap to Nepal for reassembly, then smuggled them through the Indo‑Nepal border into India.
- Investigators named Shahbaz Ansari as the alleged kingpin linked to the 2022 Sidhu Moosewala case and say he fled after interim bail in 2025 and is believed to be in Bangladesh.
- Raids that began with three arrests near Daryaganj on March 13 widened across Old Delhi and Uttar Pradesh, where officers also detained a SIM vendor and traced hawala payments used to move money off the books.
- The haul included a Czech Skorpion submachine gun and high-end pistols from Europe, China and Turkey, and police say the guns were bound for organised crime groups in Delhi‑NCR, prompting coordination with national agencies and steps to seek Ansari’s return.