Delhi: Gym owner arrested with illegal firearms

A gym owner was arrested by Delhi Police for carrying illegal firearms in NorthWest Delhis Jagangir Puri area reported PTI citing officialsThe accused was identified as Vishal Kumar As per the PTI report he was arrested with 2 semiautomatic pistols and 25 live cartridges said Deputy Commissioner of Police Crime Satish KumarThe police received a tipoff about Vishal having illegal firearms to establish his supremacy amongst the criminals involved in gambling in the area said the PTI reportOn sustained interrogation Vishal disclosed that he wanted to establish his supremacy in gambling in the area He added that he carried firearms with him in case a scuffle broke out with the persons involved in these types of organized crimeThe police said that one pistol with three live cartridges were recovered from his possession during the arrest and one pistol with 22 live cartridges were recovered from the raid conducted at his houseThe police recovered one pistol with three live cartridges from him during the arrest Additionally they recovered one pistol with 22 live cartridges in the raid conducted at his houseHe started a private job and after that he changed his job and joined a gym as a trainer they saidDelhi police arrest one of two suspects in Nigerian nationals murder caseDelhi Police on Monday claimed to have arrested one of the two men allegedly involved in the murder of a Nigerian national earlier this monthAccording to police the two men murdered the Nigerian national by firing multiple bullets at him under the jurisdiction of the Nihal Vihar police station on July 6Following the murder a case was registered under various sections of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita BNS and the Arms ActDCP Outer Delhi Jimmy Chiram said During the investigation the team analysed numerous CCTV camera footage from the incident area and examined call detail records for over 30 individuals Multiple raids were conducted in Delhi Haryana and Rajasthan in search of the suspects who were frequently changing their locationsHe continued Simultaneously local intelligence was developed to locate the accused and on July 14 secret information was received about the suspects hideout near Japanese Park Rohini Acting on this information the team conducted a raid and successfully apprehended one suspect identified as Nikesh alias KanhaDCP Chiram added During sustained interrogation the accused confessed that he along with his associate known as Cheetah fired multiple bullets at the Nigerian man using two pistols Nikesh alias Kanha has been arrested and handed over to Nihal Vihar police station for further investigation Efforts are ongoing to arrest the other accused CheetahThe accused revealed that the murder was planned as part of his attempt to enter the criminal underworld he said