The Mumbai Police, on 21 July, arrested a man for allegedly trying to smuggle two illegal firearms hidden in a copy of the Bhagvad Gita. The accused has been identified as Sanjay Choudhary, a resident of Bandra in Mumbai. According to the police, Choudhary had kept the Gita in a shoe box and a rectangular cavity had been cut into the pages, in which two country-made revolvers and eleven live rounds were concealed.
“Inquiries revealed that the guns and the ammunition belonged to Mahadik, who had given them to Chaudhary for safekeeping. Mahadik is wanted in a firing case in Thane in 2012. We will send the weapons for ballistics examination to check if either was used in that case. We are also trying to trace Mahadik,” said Ambadas Pote, the DCP at crime branch of Mumbai Police.