The Delhi Police’s Special Cell on Wednesday said that they arrested and brought back Salim Sheikh alias Salim Pistol, a “wanted” illegal arms supplier to the Capital, after his arrest from the Indo-Nepal border, officials said.According to the police, Sheikh was detained on Saturday from the India-Nepal border by a team of Special Cell officials and the Kathmandu police.
“Salim was detained on Saturday and after interrogation he was arrested and brought back to India on Monday,” said the police. Deputy Commissioner of Police (Special Cell) Amit Kaushik confirmed the development and told The Hindu that he was in police custody. “The team has brought Salim Sheikh to Delhi and is in police custody being interrogated,” said the officer.
According to officials, the Sheikh was allegedly the first illegal arms supplier to supply Zigana pistols to gangsters in India. “He has been supplying arms to gangsters like Lawrence Bishnoi and Hashim Baba from abroad,” said a senior police officer.
The officer also alleged that Sheikh is also allegedly associated with Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) and with Dawood Ibrahim and his D-Company. Sheikh’s name has been allegedly associated with top high profile murders, the first being Sidhu Moosewala’s murder where he allegedly mentored one of the accused. Further, the officer also added that Sheikh’s name also cropped up during the investigation of NCP leader Baba Siddique’s murder, for allegedly supplying arms to the accused.
