Daijiworld Media Network
Amritsar, Sep 12: Popular Sufi singers Puran Singh and Pyare Lal known as the Wadali brothers, were found in the possession of 14 live cartridges. They were detained and had to face an interrogation of nearly an hour at Sri Guru Ram Das International Airport.
While their luggage was being cleared for them to board a Jet Airlines flight to New Delhi, an x-ray machine detected the .32 cartridges in one of the handbags.
The singers themselves were surprised at the discovery. They claimed to have not checked their baggage while packing. They denied any ill-intention saying, “We have an arm license and there was no ill-intention.”
However, a senior CISF said, “They have admitted their mistake. The cartridges have been confiscated.”
The airport has in the past witnessed a number of hijackings the last being the hijacking of Air India’s flight IC 814, which touched down here on way Lahore, Dubai and eventually Kandahar.
SHO, Airport Police Station, Neeraj Sharma said that the CISF “questioned the singers and they found no foul play or any conspiracy as they had mistakenly brought the ammunition”.
“They were not carrying the arms licence but got it brought from home,” the SHO said, adding that no case was registered.