Air passenger held for carrying unlicensed revolver

A man was arrested for carrying a revolver along with 10 cartridges in a handbag without valid documents at Karipur airport here on Thursday, CISF officials said.

A man was arrested for carrying a revolver along with 10 cartridges in a handbag without valid documents at Karipur airport here on Thursday, CISF officials said.

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35-year-old K Ashique was held by CISF personnel for carrying a revolver, whose licence was found to have expired in May 2007, as he was about to board an Air India flight to Kochi this morning, they said.

The arrest was made under the provision of Civil Aviation Act as the passenger failed to make declaration of goods and travelling with insufficient documents, the officials said.

Relatives of the passenger later furnished documents to prove that Ashique had applied for renewing the revolver's licence.