Five grenades found near former Army official's residence in Bengaluru

New Delhi, November 9

Five grenades atleast 40 years old have been found near the house of an ex-serviceman in Karnataka’s Dakshina Kannada district.

The police said the ex Army official, Jayakumar Poojary, a resident of Ilanthila village in Belthangady taluk, informed them that five grenades were found in a plastic cover near his house.

The police said that while he was walking on a mud track towards his house when he found the grenades in a yellow plastic cover near a barbed fence.

After Poojary alerted the police, a bomb disposal squad rushed to the village and recovered the grenades.

The bomb squad found that those are hand-held grenades made at an ordnance factory estimated to be between 1979 and 1983.

The police have registered a case under Sections 25 (1b) of the Indian Arms Act and a probe is underway.

The police are making inquires with the Army unit and ordinance factories to ascertain how the grenades reached near the official's house.