Customs seize bullets, lenses from air passenger

Chennai, Dec 25 (UNI) The aircustoms seized 50.002 bullets and three lenses meant for guns from the baggage of an air passenger who arrived from the United States by a Lufthansa flight at Anna International airport here.

Customs sources said, Dr Thomas Wesley George (48) a dentist and Green Card holder of the US had landed here along with his family on Friday night, enroute to his native place in Andhra Pradesh to celebrate Christmas.

One of his baggage did not arrive on that day and the authorities asked him to come and collect it on Saturday.

When the customs officials were scanning the baggage, they found the bullets and lenses inside it. When they asked Mr George about the bullets, he said he was holding a licence for the gun and was also a member of a rifle club in the US. The bulets were meant for hunting birds and carrying them was not an offence.

The officials seized the bullets, the lenses and his passport.

They obtained an undertaking that whenever he was required for interrogation, he should come to meet the authorities.

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