Bullets recovered from sewage chamber

Nigdi police recovered 110 bullets of various sizes from a sewage chamber under a railway bridge near Akurdi railway station on Sunday.

Akurdi police chowki under Nigdi police station got a call from a student,Babasaheb Kokitkar,who spotted these bullets in a bag around 12 noon. Assistant police inspector PV Jadhav said,“The bullets are of various sizes and not all of them are live ones. We have sent the bullets to the ammunition factory in Khadki to get information about them.”

Jadhav said,“Four live bullets are of ranger type,but three of them are damaged. There were 15 more empty rounds of the same kind. The set also had 23 bullets of 7.62mm and 17 of them were usable and six damaged. We could not categorise the rest of the bullets.”