While they were on the job, they heard the area watchman coming towards them. “We hid behind the car and when he came near, we bundled him inside the car. Ramandeep took his cap, baton and torch and played watchman to avoid suspicion of the patrolling police parties,” Jaipal reportedly said.

Soon, Rajiv was inside the shop. He first opened the safe and pocketed Rs 5,000. “Rajiv kept on passing the weapons to me. He passed around 15 rifles, and then revolvers and cartridges. We remained inside the shop for around 25 minutes,” he said.

Before returning to their hideout in Ferozepur, they used the watchman’s belt to tie him with a tree and stuffed the bundle of Rs 5,000 in his pocket.

“In Ferozepur, we removed the slips of the pistols and destroyed them. We picked up around 20 weapons and few cartridges and buried the remaining in a pit in a house,” Jaipal reportedly told the police.

The police said they will also interrogate him about the Sector-33 robbery and the murder of Amarjeet, the owner of Sham Mall in Sector 34.