Overview

• Airport security at RGIA detected eight live bullets during screening of a checked-in bag and handed the passenger to the police.
• The traveler was identified as Sukhdeep Singh, 32, from Bhawanigarh in Punjab, bound for Amritsar via Delhi.
• RGIA police registered an FIR and booked him under Section 25(1B)(a) of the Arms Act for unauthorised possession of ammunition.
• Officials reported the seized rounds as four of 0.2 mm, two of 0.7 mm, one of 7.52 mm and one of 7.62 mm calibre.
• Preliminary inquiries noted a recent trip to a gurdwara in Nanded on August 22, with a decision to fly back to Punjab due to heavy rains in his native place.