Private firm employee held with a live bullet at Cubbon Park Metro Station

Security unit astatine the Cubbon Park Metro Station caught a 21-year-old backstage steadfast worker who allegedly carried a unrecorded bullet, during a regular information cheque connected Tuesday.

The suspect, identified arsenic Mohammed Suhail, a nonmigratory of Chikkamagaluru, was attempting to participate the presumption erstwhile the information unit checked his baggage astatine the introduction gross and recovered a unrecorded bullet. He was instantly detained and aboriginal handed implicit to the Commercial Street Police for further investigation.

Based connected a ailment filed by G.N. Lokesh, adjunct sub-inspector, Suhail has been booked nether applicable sections of the Arms Act, 1959 and taken into custody.

During questioning, Suhail reportedly told the constabulary that helium had got the slug from his friend, a hairdresser from Chikkamagaluru, and kept it arsenic a keepsake, the constabulary said.

The constabulary person sent the seized slug to the Forensic Science Laboratory (FSL) for investigation and person launched a probe to verify his claims.