India, Sept. 21 -- The Delhi Police arrested 70 people on Friday as part of a night-long crackdown on organised crimes in the southeast district, police said, adding that 15 illegal firearms, 24 cartridges and 16 knives were also recovered during the drive called "Operation Aaghaat".

Besides, the district police also seized 6,338 illegal liquor bottles, nearly 6kg of narcotic substances, Rs.78,350 cash, three mobile phones, and two motorcycles from the 70 arrested people.

"All ACPs and SHOs of southeast district along with their personnel participated in the crackdown that was carried out in the leadership of joint commissioner of police (southern range) Sanjay Jain and supervised by additional DCPs Aishwarya Sharma and Ishan Bhardwaj,"...