Overview
- Punjab Police said it carried out the operation in a joint action by the State Special Operations Cell, Amritsar, and Counter Intelligence, Jalandhar, coordinated with a central agency, and announced the arrests on Sunday.
- Officers arrested three alleged operatives and seized three foreign-made sophisticated pistols along with ammunition from their possession.
- An FIR has been registered at the SSOC police station in Amritsar and cases under the Arms Act and related provisions have been filed as investigations proceed.
- Police reported preliminary links between the arrestees and a murder in Amritsar and an attempted murder in Batala while investigators work to corroborate those ties.
- Investigators are tracing the wider network of local facilitators, weapons routes and overseas handlers to dismantle the syndicate, a push that follows recent seizures of other sophisticated firearms in the Amritsar area.