A pistol and a machete were recovered from a State Express Transport Corporation bus, which arrived in Tirunelveli on Wednesday from Chennai.
Sources in the State Express Transport Corporation depot at Vannarpet in Palayamkottai said the SETC’s air-conditioned seat-cum-sleeper bus with registration number TN 01 AN 3227, which had reached Tirunelveli from Chennai on Wednesday morning, had been parked in the depot for mandatory cleaning before being operated to Chennai again in the evening.
Around 2.30 p.m., the cleaner found a pistol and a two-feet long machete (known as Thuppakki Arival) beneath seat number 9. He informed the supervisor and the depot manager, who alerted the Palayamkottai police.
