Rajkot: A former BJP corporator in Rajkot Municipal Corporation (RMC) was detained with a country-made pistol from near Airport Road railway crossing on Thursday night.
Police said that they found country-made pistol worth Rs 20,000 and five live cartridges worth Rs 500 from the car of Sanjay Dhava (46), former BJP corporator from ward 17 of Rajkot city.
According to case details, Dhava’s employee Kamlesh Patel was detained for driving in an inebriated state and was also booked for violating curfew on Thursday night.
After Patel was detained, he called Dhava, urging him to bail him out of the problem. While Dhava was going to the police station in his car, he was stopped near Airport Road railway crossing for allegedly breaking night curfew rules. “During checking of his car, we found the pistol and cartridges, following which we booked Dhava under the Arms Act and section 188 of the Indian Penal Code dealing with the violation of government notification,” said L L Chavda, an inspector with Pradyuman Nagar police station.
During interrogation, Dhava said that he had bought the pistol and cartridges 15 years ago from an arms dealer in Madhya Pradesh for self protection.