A 22-year-old man, Rohan Khosla, was arrested with a large cache of arms and ammunition, including 25 pistols, an AK-47 assault rifle, 368 cartridges, and 47 magazines. During interrogation, he disclosed that he had previously smuggled 16 pistols in four separate consignments, earning Rs 3,000 per pistol.
Details of the Arrest
Khosla, a resident of Roop Nagar Colony under the Gate Hakiman police station in Amritsar, was taken into custody by the State Special Operation Cell (SSOC). He was produced before a court, which remanded him to six days of police custody.
The SSOC team took Khosla to Border Outpost (BOP) Shahpur in the Ramdas sector, where a Pakistani drone had allegedly dropped the consignment. The recovered items included 25 pistols, an AK-47 rifle, 47 magazines, 368 cartridges, and a bulletproof jacket.
Interrogation Revelations
According to sources in the SSOC, Khosla revealed that he was acting on the instructions of a schoolmate currently based in Australia. This individual is allegedly a key handler for Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI). The Australia-based operative had recruited several youngsters for cross-border arms and heroin smuggling, and efforts are underway to identify them.
Khosla reportedly identified the drop location and disclosed that he had previously collected four consignments of four pistols each from different locations and delivered them to criminal elements. He was promised Rs 3,000 for every pistol successfully delivered, with payments routed through a hawala network and handed over at locations around Majitha Mandi in Amritsar.
