Two including interstate arms smuggling leader sentenced to 10 years imprisonment

The court of additional sessions judge Tayyab Hussain also imposed an overall fine of ₹10,000 on the convicts Kot Singh, 38, and Jam Singh, 41, after pronouncing their sentence under section 25(8) of the Arms Act on Thursday.

Published on: Jan 24, 2026, 05:16:14 IST

By Debashish Karmakar

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A court in Palwal sentenced two men to 10 years of rigorous imprisonment after finding them guilty of manufacturing and running a large-scale interstate arms smuggling racket, police said on Friday.

The court of additional sessions judge Tayyab Hussain also imposed an overall fine of ₹10,000 on the convicts Kot Singh, 38, and Jam Singh, 41, after pronouncing their sentence under section 25(8) of the Arms Act on Thursday.

Police said they were from Barwani in Madhya Pradesh where they were running a massive illegal arms manufacturing factory which was busted by a Palwal police crime branch team in July 2022.

Sanjay Kadian, public relations officer of Palwal police station said the duo was arrested from Dabchik mod at Hodal in Palwal by a crime branch team headed by inspector Jangsher Singh on July 10, 2022 with a cache of 35 country-made semi-automatic pistols, six breach-load pistols and 11 magazines from their possession.

“They involved in supplying weapons to criminals in Haryana, Punjab, Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan and other states for the last several years from their factory by travelling in public transport. The entire nexus was dismantled by the then Palwal SP Rajesh Duggal,” said Kadian.

Kadian said that after the duo’s arrest, the crime branch team got to know about the illegal factory in Madhya Pradesh which was raided leading to recovery of all the manufacturing equipment.

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Debashish Karmakar
Debashish Karmakar is a principal correspondent with the Hindustan Times, Gurugram bureau. He has a vast journalistic experience of almost 14 years of covering crime, court, power, transport, administration, weather and other beats while working across various organisations. He has been covering Gurugram, Faridabad, Nuh, Palwal and other districts of southern Haryana for more than four and a half years. He has produced several breaking and exclusive stories while reporting from the ground where he maintains a strong presence on a daily basis. He writes news articles which are hard-hitting and accurate. With his strong bureaucratic sources, he frequently writes stories to expose the failure of the system forcing authorities to take necessary course-corrective steps. Besides crime, important convictions and court orders, he also writes on human-angle stories, on power issues and challenges faced by the residents on a daily basis in Gurugram and neighbouring areas. In the past, he worked for media houses like The Times of India, where he extensively reported on important government matters and daily proceedings at the Patna High Court. He has also worked in the electronic media and had done ground coverage on the Kedarnath deluge that wrecked Uttarakhand in 2013.Read More

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