India, April 15 -- A 21-year-old man was apprehended after a shootout near Bandhwari in Gurugram early Tuesday for allegedly supplying foreign-made weapons to shooters linked to gangster Deepak Nandal, who had opened fire outside a fashion designer's office on Golf Course Road in February, police said.

Officials of the Haryana police special task force (STF) said the accused supplied pistols, suspected to have been smuggled through the international border in Punjab, to three shooters who fired outside the office in Sector 26A on February 18 as part of an extortion attempt. An FIR was later registered at DLF Phase-I police station after Nandal claimed responsibility on social media.

Preet Pal Sangwan, deputy superintendent of police (ST...