A huge quantity of assorted live cartridges have been seized from a man at Rangia railway station in lower Assam by Railway Protection Force (RPF).
The bag of the man, who was travelling from Nagaland to Bihar, was checked last night following suspicion and the cartridges were found in his posession, RPF Rangia officer-in-charge Biplab Mazumdar said today.
The seizure include 31 rounds of cartidges of .303 rifle, 22 rounds of cartridges of .38 pistol, a mobile phone, the man's driving licence issued in Dimapur from where he was travelling, his voter identity card and another i-card of Nagaland Auto Association, Majumdar said.
During interrogation the man confessed that he had taken such consignments of ammunition a number of times earlier from Nagaland to Bihar, where he is a resident of Naraharpur in Vaishali district, he said.
Investigations are on to find out whether the man had links with militant outfits or was a carrier of arms and ammunition, the RPF said.
