Bullets found in IIT-B hostel: Mumbai police arrest real estate agent

Mumbai: Powai police have arrested a Bihar-based real estate agent in connection with recovery of five live bullets from a BTech student's bag in his IIT-Bombay hostel room last month.The accused, Prashant Raj (24), was apprehended from Ujjain in Madhya Pradesh on Feb 26, based on information provided by Sarvottam Chaudhary (23), a college dropout from Bihar who was arrested on February 19 for allegedly keeping the live ammunition in his friend's bag during his visit as a guest on the Powai campus on February 12. Chaudhary had allegedly confessed to purchasing the bullets for Rs 3,500 from Yadav, and said that he had failed to strike a deal to buy a gun.The bullets were found in the BTech student's bag on February 19, when IIT-B security personnel searched rooms in hostel number 1 for alcohol bottles after a fight broke out between two students, who were allegedly drunk. Chaudhary was nabbed when he again visited the campus on February 19.