24 live cartridges found in 2 passengers' bags

Pune | Thursday | 10th January, 2019

Summary:

PUNE: As many as 24 live cartridges were seized from baggages of two male passengers at the airport in Pune district of Maharashtra on Thursday, a police official said.Both of them have been detained, he said.A total of 22 live cartridges were found in the baggage of a 58-year-old passenger, who was scheduled to fly to Bengaluru in a SpiceJet flight, Vimantal police station's senior inspector Dilip Shinde said. "He claimed that he had come to Pune to visit his son, who works as an IT engineer here. "After the detection, the passenger was handed over to the airport police . He has also said that he does not have any valid gun license," he said. "We are questioning him about how the two cartridges came into his bag..