Bullets in vacated hotel room, Italians in custody

Pune: Three Italians were detained at Pune and Mumbai airports on Thursday after bullets and pistol parts were found concealed in the room of a five-star hotel they had checked out of earlier in the week.
Delhi Police officials said Giovanni Cecconella (42), Gulio Pomelto (46) and Donato D' Angelo (43) had arrived in the Capital from Italy on May 24 and checked into Radisson Hotel near Indira Gandhi International Airport at 1 am. They stayed separately in room numbers 448, 474 and 349 and checked out at 9 am.
The Vasant Kunj police in Delhi scanned hotel records to ascertain who stayed in the room last. When they found the names of the Italians, they checked the CCTV and X-ray baggage scan footage. Police sources who examined the X-ray baggage footages said the ammunition and pistol parts were visible in the laptop bag of the Italians.
The accused had given their passport copies as identity proofs at the hotel. Based on this, the police issued a Look Out Notice on Wednesday night. At 7.15 am on Thursday, Customs officals at Mumbai International airport detained Pomelto as he was about to board a flight back to Italy.
28/05/10 Sahim Salim/ExpressIndia

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