Author: Dalip Singh
Publication: The Indian Express
Date: June 6, 2002
URL: http://www.indian-express.com/archive_full_story.php?content_id=3907
In a joint operation, the Central
Bureau of Investigation (CBI) and the Border Security Force (BSF) today
recovered a huge quantity of arms and ammunition from a truck in Tharad,
about 100 km from the Indo-Pakistan border in Gujarat.
Acting on a tip-off, the joint team
intercepted a truck (GJ-5E-2303), laden with paddy, at around 7 pm today.
In the search that followed, the officials recovered 20 Chinese pistols,
38 magazines and 150 rounds of ammunition, all hidden inside the paddy.
Two people, including the driver, have been arrested.
The duo, Mohammed Bhai and Hari
Bhai Patel, reportedly confessed that the consignment had come from across
the border and was meant for Ahmedabad. CBI officials said it would take
some time to find out who sent the consignment and who was supposed to
receive it.
Today's development follows a similar
seizure in October last year, when the CBI recovered a consignment containing
18 kg RDX, two AKs, two pistols along with other explosives and ammunition
in Patan district of Gujarat.
On May 10, the CBI had filed a supplementary
chargesheet against mafia don Aftab Ansari, who was deported to Delhi from
Dubai in Febuary, naming him as the prime conspirator in the Santhalpur
explosives case. Omar Sheikh has also been named as a key conspirator in
this case.
