India, Nov. 23 -- The Delhi Police's Crime Branch has busted a major international illegal arms smuggling racket, allegedly linked to Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI)-backed suppliers, with the arrest of four key operatives involved in supplying high-end foreign-made weapons to organised crime groups across northern India. The syndicate, connected to Pakistan's ISI, was smuggling sophisticated pistols manufactured in China and Turkey into India via Pakistan.

According to the police, the network sourced foreign-made weapons smuggled from Pakistan using drones and supplied them to gangsters in Delhi, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh and Punjab. The police are now working to determine the number of weapons they sold in India and the gangs...