New Delhi, June 06: CBI has secured remand of the two persons arrested in connection with last night's arms seizure from a communal violence-ravaged Gujarat district even as preliminary investigations showed that the weapons were being smuggled into the state for creating more disturbances. While not ruling out the hand of Pakistan's ISI in communal flare-up in the state, CBI said the two accused Hari Bhai Patel and Mohammed Bhai Patel, were being brought here for intensive interrogation. The two were arrested from Tharad in Banaskantha district of the state after 20 pistols, 40 magazines and 150 rounds of ammunition were seized from their truck. The CBI said that the two accused had revealed that the arms were meant for sale in certain localities of Gujarat, which witnessed communal clashes leaving hundreds dead. They were produced before a magistrate who remanded them to CBI custody.
The CBI said that the agency had received a tip-off that some anti-national elements were trying to smuggle in arms and ammunition into the country following which surveillance was mounted in the area and the team succeeded in seizing a truck carrying arms and ammunition at 1800 hours last evening.

This is the second big seizure by the CBI in the state. Last year, CBI seized huge quantity of arms and ammunition which was being smuggled at the instance of Aftab Ansari, one of the main accused in the attack on American centre in Kolkata earlier this year.
Bureau Report