Pistol, cartridges found near Metro station

22 October,2010 08:31 AM IST |   |  Atul Krishan

Recovery on October 13, a day before the closing ceremony


Recovery on October 13, a day before the closing ceremony

A bag containing live cartridges and a pistol was found outside Jhandewalan Metro Station on 13th of October, when the Commonwealth Games was on. An FIR in this regard has been registered with Mandir Marg police station of New Delhi district.


In Safe Hands? A constable on patrol duty noticed the black
bag lying outside the Jhandewalan Metro station (above).


According to a police source, a constable was on patrol duty when he noticed a black bag lying outside the Metro station. Senior police officials were called at the spot who decided to inform the bomb disposal squad there might be explosives inside the bag.

"The bomb squad took the bag to a safe place and opened. it Police personnel were surprised to see the contents - live cartridges and a pistol," said the police source.

A senior police official confirmed the incident and said that the constable who discovered the bag first searched for its owner. When he failed, he informed a senior police official. "We had thought that it belonged to a passenger," the official said. Meanwhile, sources said that an FIR has been registered against unknown persons and the bag has been sent to a forensic lab.

Games On Track

Delhi Metro seemed to be the transport of choice during the Commonwealth Games, carrying as many as 14.47 lakh commuters including 1.24 lakh spectators and volunteers, daily on an average since October 3.
On the day of the closing ceremony of the Games, around 5.34 lakh passengers travelled on the entire Metro network as all central government offices, shops and commercial establishments were closed. The Metro runs a fleet of 129 trains on a network of 138 km that has 117 stations across Delhi and the suburbs of Noida and Gurgaon.
The DMRC, in order to connect to some of the Games venues, constructed the Central Secretariat-Sarita Vihar Metro section in a record time of 41 months and opened it on October 3 just hours before the Games.

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