Woman held with bullet at Sikandarpur metro station

A woman was apprehended at a Delhi Metro station in Haryana on Friday for allegedly carrying a live bullet round in her bag, officials said.

The Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) personnel apprehended the unidentified woman, a resident of West Bengal, at the Sikandarpur station near here after the X-ray baggage scanner detected the ammunition in her bag, they said.

The woman, who works in a salon in the Green Park area of the national capital, was handed over to the Haryana Police by the CISF personnel for further investigation, officials said.

Carrying of arms and ammunition is banned in the Delhi metro.