Bullet found in army man's bag at Coimbatore airport
Coimbatore airport
COIMBATORE: A bullet was found in the shoulder bag of an army man while it was being screened by staffers of an airline at Coimbatore International Airport on Tuesday. CISF personnel secured the army man and handed him over to the Peelamedu police, who inquired with him for a while and later let him off.
The bullet was found in the bag of G Pradeep Kumar, 25, of Kaniyarkode in Thrissur who is an operator in the excavating machinery division of the Indian Army in Dehradun.
Pradeep Kumar reached his hometown from Dehradun on leave a week ago. After the holidays, he came to Coimbatore International Airport from his hometown by car and was about to take a flight to Bengaluru.
IndiGo Airlines staff members checked his shoulder bag and found a 5.56 mm bullet (INSAS rifle) in it.
He was handed over to CISF personnel who in turn handed him over to the Peelamedu police.
A preliminary inquiry found that army men used to keep rifles and bullets in their luggage for a period of three months. Later, they would surrender the weapons and bullets. He also did the same but missed one bullet while surrendering them.
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