KOLKATA: An alarm was sounded at Kolkata airport on Friday morning, when a pistol with a magazine containing seven bullets had been detected in a hand bag all through the regimen X-ray prior to boarding flights. With Kolkata and different airports on top alert in opposition to a possible terror strike following the Pulwama attack, the detection created a stir. After initial interrogation, the passenger was booked under the Arms Act 1959.
CISF assistant sub-inspector Mritunjay Singh, who was scanning the contents of the bags as they passed through the X-ray machine, bolted upright when the gun and bullets confirmed up on the track. He had spotted stray bullets in bags earlier but by no means a pistol and bullets, that too in a passenger’s cabin bag. The bag was instantly recovered from the X-ray conveyor belt and set aside for the owner to step ahead.
Meanwhile, Bablu Kumar Mundu, resident of Bachra — a colliery township in Chatra district of Jharkhand — cleared frisking and grew to become up on the Xray portal to gather his bag. He was booked on an IndiGo flight to Chennai that was to depart at eight.06am. When he pointed to the bag, CISF officials asked how and why he was wearing the gun and bullets. He failed to offer a ample resolution. Arms and ammunition are strictly prohibited in cabin luggage. According to resources, the 39-year-old building contractor stated the pistol and bullets had been there through mistake and that he couldn’t remember when and how it were put within the bag. He was also unable to provide a licence for the gun.
“A .32 pistol and 7 7.65 calibre bullets had been seized. We have passed them over, at the side of the passenger, to local police,” a CISF officer stated.
CISF assistant sub-inspector Mritunjay Singh, who was scanning the contents of the bags as they passed through the X-ray machine, bolted upright when the gun and bullets confirmed up on the track. He had spotted stray bullets in bags earlier but by no means a pistol and bullets, that too in a passenger’s cabin bag. The bag was instantly recovered from the X-ray conveyor belt and set aside for the owner to step ahead.
Meanwhile, Bablu Kumar Mundu, resident of Bachra — a colliery township in Chatra district of Jharkhand — cleared frisking and grew to become up on the Xray portal to gather his bag. He was booked on an IndiGo flight to Chennai that was to depart at eight.06am. When he pointed to the bag, CISF officials asked how and why he was wearing the gun and bullets. He failed to offer a ample resolution. Arms and ammunition are strictly prohibited in cabin luggage. According to resources, the 39-year-old building contractor stated the pistol and bullets had been there through mistake and that he couldn’t remember when and how it were put within the bag. He was also unable to provide a licence for the gun.
“A .32 pistol and 7 7.65 calibre bullets had been seized. We have passed them over, at the side of the passenger, to local police,” a CISF officer stated.
Kolkata: Flyer held with pistol, bullets
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March 17, 2019
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