Why was Kerala comrade carrying bullets?

Chennai/Thiruvananthapuram: The case of the Chennai airport security confiscating five live bullets from the cabin baggage of CPI (M) politburo member Pinarayi Vijayan on Friday is getting curiouser and curiouser.
With the preliminary inquiry of CISF manning the Thiruvananthapuram airport suggesting that no bullets were found in Vijayan’s baggage before he boarded a Paramount Airways flight at 11.30 am to Chennai (before he was to take a Jet Airways flight to Delhi at 5.30 pm), many questions have cropped up.
Is the CISF at the Thiruvananthapuram airport trying to cover up a security lapse? Or, if the CISF initial report is true, where did Vijayan get the bullets from, after he left Thiruvananthapuram and before he was to leave Chennai for Delhi? By admitting that there were bullets in his baggage, Vijayan has sought to negate the second question, which means more difficult explanations for the Thiruvananthapuram airport security.
Vijayan said he had left the .38 calibre bullets in his bag after removing them from the revolver before producing it for renewal of the licence. “There has been a threat to my life,” he said.
18/02/07 Arun Ram/Don Sebastian/Daily News &Analysis

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