Loaded AK-47 rifle seized from Bihar legislator’s house

A loaded AK-47 was recovered by Patna police from the ancestral house of on Friday during a raid that also threw up live cartridges and explosives.

On a tip-off, a police team raided the house of Singh, independent MLA from Mokama who was earlier with the Janata Dal (United), in Ladma village in Barh sub-division of rural Patna. A bomb disposal squad was summoned to defuse hand grenades found in the house.

Rural SP Kantesh Kumar Mishra said the raids were conducted on specific intelligence inputs that illegal arms and ammunition were stored at the MLA’s house. The entire operation was video-graphed in the presence of the caretaker of the house and a magistrate.