Algerian gets a year in jail for ‘carrying bullet’

Bhopal: An Algerian tourist who was allegedly found carrying a live bullet in his baggage while boarding a Delhi-bound flight at the Khajuraho airport on May 11 has been awarded one-year rigorous imprisonment by a court after a quick trial that lasted just 11 days.
Algerian embassy officials were also present during the trial that took place in the court of judicial magistrate (first class) in Chhatarpur, the district in which the temple town of Khajuraho falls.
During the trial, the prosecution underlined 32-year-old Nehar Redouane’s Algerian nationality to argue that he could be testing the security standards at the Khajuraho airport for a possible terror strike in future. The prosecution also pressed for a quick trial and pleaded against “granting bail to a foreigner”, arguing that if he jumped bail, it would be difficult to get him back to India to face the trial.
Countering the prosecution theory that Nehar had picked up the bullet in a street in Jaipur from where he visited Varanasi before landing in Khajuraho, defence lawyer Pawan Mishra argued that the bullet made its way to the Algerian’s luggage after he had a fight with CISF officials who spoke to him loudly since he had reported late for boarding and could not understand their instructions.
29/05/12 Milind Ghatwai/Indian Express

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