India, March 30 -- Amritsar commissionerate police have foiled an illegal arms smuggling attempt with recovery of two 9MM sub-machine guns and an empty magazine, said Punjab director general of police (DGP) Gaurav Yadav on Sunday.

The recovered weapons were found marked with "Ghaffar Security". Yadav said that preliminary investigation has revealed that the recovered consignment was linked to notorious gangster Gurpreet Singh alias Goldy Dhillon. The weapons were being supplied through his network for carrying out anti national and criminal activities in the state, he said.

The DGP said that further investigation is underway to identify the absconding accused and dismantle the entire network.

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