Arms and ammunition seized in Nandigram

NANDIGRAM (WB): Firearms and ammunition were confiscated on Sunday from the house of a CPI(M) activist at Chowringhee Bazar here, police said.
  
Superintendent of Police of East Midnapore district, Ashok Prasad, said that eight each pistols, guns and hockey sticks and 251 cartridges were recovered from Hasina Bibi's house.
  
Middle-aged Hasina's husband and son were absconding but she was detained for questioning, the police said.
  
She claimed a group of youths riding motorbikes had kept the arms and ammunition on the first-floor veranda of her two-storey building and asked them to be silent.
  
The SP said they acted on the basis of a complaint lodged by Abu Taher, a leader of Bhoomi Uchched Pratirodh Committee (BUPC), the anti-land acquisition body, at Nandigram police station that ammunition and arms were being stockpiled there.
   
Admitting that Hasina was a CPI(M) supporter, the party's local leader, Ashok Bera, alleged the arms were kept by Trinamool Congress leaders in her house to create trouble in Nandigram.
   
Taher complained that the arms were being supplied from outside to use against those who protested the land acquisition for the proposed SEZ there.