Jammu, Sept. 28 -- Weapons recovered from gangsters and drug smugglers in the Jammu division are increasingly being linked to people across the border, and police are now working to map the supply network behind them.

Investigators are trying to establish two things: the routes by which weapons are being pushed in from across the border, and who is delivering them to gangsters and smugglers at the local level. In recent cases, police and investigating agencies arrested gang associates and drug peddlers and recovered weapons from them.

Questioning revealed that they were in contact with people based across the border. Agencies are no longer treating the recoveries as isolated local crimes and are instead connecting the links of the larger ...