Warangal: Auto driver finds carbine on main road

It is learnt that the rifle had fallen from a truck belonging to the CRPF battalion while it was passing through MGM Junction.

Warangal:  It is not every day that one finds a carbine machine gun lying on the road! However, on Friday morning, D Srinivas, an auto-rickshaw driver found exactly that, and that too at the busy MGM junction.

Srinivas, who was heading towards Hanamkonda from the Warangal railway station, noticed a weapon falling from a truck moving in front of his auto-rickshaw at MGM Junction and picked it up. However, by the time he parked his vehicle and picked up the weapon, the truck had gone far. As he was planning to find the truck, a sanitation worker advised him to hand over the weapon to the police.

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Srinivas immediately approached the Mattewada police station and handed over the weapon to the Station House Officer. He narrated the entire incident to the SHO, who took the custody of the weapon. In the meantime, personnel from the 58 CRPF battalion, who realised that they had lost a weapon from their vehicle, also reached the Mattewada police station to lodge a complaint.

The police, after verifying the CCTV camera footage installed at MGM Junction and conducting necessary enquiries, handed over the weapon to the CRPF personnel.