Thirteen pistols — four of them Glocks — an assault rifle, two hand grenades, and 25 live cartridges are off Punjab's streets tonight, after Counter Intelligence Amritsar cracked open a cross-border arms-smuggling network on 15 October 2026. The Chief Minister's Office of Punjab announced the bust, confirming five accused have been apprehended in what the government is calling a major breakthrough.

What was seized — and why the Glocks matter

The haul is striking not just for its size but for its composition. Alongside 13 pistols, investigators recovered 1 assault rifle of .30 bore and 2 hand grenades — a combination that signals operational readiness, not casual stockpiling. The presence of 4 Glock pistols is a particular red flag: Glocks are expensive, precision-manufactured sidearms that rarely drift into criminal hands through domestic channels, pointing squarely at a pipeline feeding from across the international border.

Counter Intelligence Amritsar — Punjab's frontline against cross-border networks

Counter Intelligence Amritsar is a specialised unit of the Punjab Police, mandated to monitor and disrupt smuggling and espionage operations along the India-Pakistan border. The unit sits at the sharpest end of a problem Punjab has wrestled with for decades: weapons and narcotics crossing an international boundary that is porous enough for determined smugglers, funnelled through networks that bridge foreign actors, local gangsters, and street-level foot soldiers.

Cross-border arms recoveries in Punjab follow a grim pattern — pistols, occasionally rifles, sometimes grenades — but modules this large, with this variety of hardware, represent a meaningful disruption in supply.

'Gangsteran Te Vaar' — the campaign behind this bust

The operation falls under the Bhagwant Mann government's 'Gangsteran Te Vaar' (Strike Against Gangsters) campaign, running continuously since 2022. The campaign has served as the operational and political umbrella for Punjab Police's anti-organised-crime drives — publicly linking each arrest and seizure to a government commitment to break the supply chains that arm street-level criminal networks. Tonight's haul is among the more significant hardware seizures publicised under that initiative.

Further police investigation is expected to map the module's links to larger criminal or cross-border networks, and additional arrests remain possible in the days ahead. With five accused in custody, interrogation is the next front in dismantling whatever network fed this arsenal into Punjab.