{"id":87147,"date":"2022-07-13T19:18:25","date_gmt":"2022-07-13T13:48:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/?p=87147"},"modified":"2022-07-13T19:18:28","modified_gmt":"2022-07-13T13:48:28","slug":"a-husband-and-wife-duo-were-arrested-at-delhi-airport-with-45-handguns-that-were-fully-functional-and-usable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/a-husband-and-wife-duo-were-arrested-at-delhi-airport-with-45-handguns-that-were-fully-functional-and-usable\/","title":{"rendered":"A husband and wife duo were arrested at Delhi Airport with 45 handguns that were fully functional and usable"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to an airport official, 45 handguns were confiscated from two Indian nationals at Indira Gandhi International (IGI) Airport or Delhi Airport in one of the most appalling seizures ever at the airport.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In possession of the handguns were Jagjit Singh and his wife Jaswinder Kaur, who arrived in New Delhi from Ho Chi Minh (Vietnam) on July 11. Passengers were intercepted by Customs officers as they crossed the green channel of the arrival hall and approached the east gate, the official said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He was in possession of two trolley bags that had been handed over to him by his elder brother Manjit Singh, who had arrived from Paris almost simultaneously with Jagjit and Jaswinder from Vietnam,&#8221; the official said, adding that after this Manjit managed to slip out of the airport. The tags of both trolley bags containing 45 guns were also removed and destroyed by Jaswinder Kaur as part of the plan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Officials said both passengers admitted smuggling 25 different guns from Turkey previously. In the meantime, sources told IANS that a ballistics report will determine whether the guns are genuine. According to a source, the NSG has confirmed that the guns are fully functional and can be used in a preliminary report.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to an airport official, 45 handguns were confiscated from two Indian nationals at Indira Gandhi International (IGI) Airport or Delhi Airport in one of the most appalling seizures ever at the airport. In possession of the handguns were Jagjit Singh and his wife Jaswinder Kaur, who arrived in New Delhi from Ho Chi Minh [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":87148,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[55],"class_list":["post-87147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national-news","tag-delhi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87147"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87149,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87147\/revisions\/87149"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}