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Police trying to trace source of bullet

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: A woman resident of Nanthancode last Wednesday found an unaddressed envelope containing a bullet and an unsigned letter, threatening her neighbour, on the porch of her house. The Museum police have registered a case on the basis of the woman’s statement. Official sources said the live 9 mm cartridge was found in a “grey standard government issue envelope.” The ammunition is of the type commonly used in automatic pistols and revolvers. Certain markings found etched on the cartridge indicated that the ammunition was manufactured by the Indian Ordnance Factory, Pune.

The police said the serial number on the ammunition would help them trace the person to whom it was issued. Such “prohibited calibre” ammunition was not usually issued to civilian arms licence holders or private armouries, they said. Only the police, Army and Central paramilitary organisations used such military grade ammunition. Most police officers in charge of enforcing law and order use 9 mm bullets in their service pistols.

The police said the “threatening letter” was addressed to Ajith Paul, a non-resident Keralite, who owns a house in the woman’s locality. Quoting the contents of the letter, an official said it was a warning to Ajith Paul to “return Rs.2 crore he owed to his former employer in the Gulf.” Those who dropped the letter must have mistaken the address.

He said Ajith Paul and few others had left their original employer’s company in Abu Dhabi early this year for better pay at another firm in Bahrain. The ammunition was found in a neighbourhood close to the high-security government-owned Cliff House residential enclave where the Chief Minister and several of his Cabinet colleagues live. The police said Ajith Paul seemed to have been threatened on behalf of one Sheikh Ali based in Abu Dhabi.

Circle Inspector, Museum, Muhammad Iqbal, is investigating the case.

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