Man held with gun in bag: Delhi Metro

New Delhi, Oct 25 A 22-year-old person was caught by the CISF at a Delhi Metro station on Thursday for allegedly carrying a country made gun in his bag, officials said.

The man was apprehended at the Jamia Millia Islamia Metro station after a jawan checking the X-ray baggage scanner detected the weapon in his bag, they said.

It was a nation made gun and the man said that he was dumbfounded how it got inside his sack, authorities said.

The man, a resident of the Batla House area in Jamia Nagar, was handed over to the local police by Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) faculty for further investigation, they said.

Carrying arms and ammunition is banned in the Delhi Metro.