India, April 16 -- A 31-year-old restaurateur and a close associate of gangsters - Lawrence Bishnoi and Rohit Godara - was arrested by the crime branch for allegedly being a key operative of a transnational arms trafficking and terror module, the Delhi Police said on Wednesday.

One semi-automatic Italy-made Beretta pistol and five cartridges were recovered from the arrested businessman, who also allegedly acted as a "settlement facilitator" between extortionists and businessmen, as well as other financially well-placed individuals, who received extortion calls through international numbers and threatened in the name of the Lawrence Bishnoi-Rohit Godara gang, the police said.

The arrest of the businessman is in continuation with the arre...