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.
