Police arrest 350 in 24-hour operation against organised crime ahead of New Year

In a large crackdown connected amerciable weapons, drugs and liquor, the Delhi constabulary arrested 350 radical and apprehended implicit 966 others successful a 24-hour preventive thrust nether ‘Operation Aaghaat 3.0’, an serviceman said connected Saturday.

The drive, aimed astatine curbing organised transgression and the activities of habitual criminals up of the New Year celebrations, progressive implicit 600 unit deployed successful assorted districts, said a elder officer.

Teams from the South and South East districts started the cognition connected the nighttime of December 25, said Joint Commissioner of Police (South Range) Sanjay Kumar Jain.

“The precocious fig of accused taken into custody should beryllium attributed to the efforts of 2 weeks of quality postulation and accordant efforts to show delinquent activities,” said Mr. Jain. Of those arrested, 331 arrests were booked nether the Delhi Excise Act, the NDPS Act, and the Public Gambling Act, the constabulary said, adding that 10 known offenders, 5 autorickshaw lifters, and 4 proclaimed offenders were among the others taken into custody.

Proclaimed offenders

“The large absorption of the thrust was against organised crime, wherever we targeted cause peddlers, bootleggers, gamblers and habitual offenders,” the JCP told The Hindu.

“Over 58 amerciable arms, 12,257 quarters of illicit liquor, 6 kg of narcotic drugs and implicit ₹2 lakh successful currency from gamblers were seized. We besides seized 310 mobile phones, six two-wheelers and 1 four-wheeler successful the operation,” helium said. In addition, 231 two-wheelers were seized for violations. Officers said stringent ineligible provisions would beryllium invoked against the offenders and proposals for externment of repetition offenders were besides being initiated.

Intensified patrolling

The constabulary added that intensified patrolling, conveyance checking and nighttime surveillance had led to a simplification successful PCR calls related to thoroughfare transgression successful the territory implicit the past month.

(With inputs from PTI)