Ahmedabad, Mar 26: A .32 calibre 'regular revolver' was used in the killing of former Gujarat Home Minister Haren Pandya by two unidentified persons here today, police said. "The make of the weapon has been identified and bullets have been recovered from the body but I will not like to get into those details right now", City Police Commissioner K R Kaushik told a news agency. Kaushik said all police personnel have been alerted throughout the city to keep an extra vigil for any suspicious person and also monitor all exit points of the city apart from conducting intensive vehicle checkings. Home Secretary K Nityanandam said that as per prima facie investigation it appears that two motorcycle borne persons had pumped in bullets into the BJP leader and escaped. Pandya was shot dead in his Maruti car early in the morning when he was about to return home after the routine morning walk.

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