A copy of The Times of India dated September 14, 1923. (TOI)Today's Times of India carried an interesting story on how the State Bank of India previously known in pre-independent India as the Imperial Bank found an automatic Mauser pistol and five magazines with 261 cartridges registered in the name of Lt A B Greenwood with a copy of The Times of India dated September 14, 1923. (Antique pistol, 1923 issue of TOI found in locker).
Trust an English Man to lock up a newspaper with his Gun, maybe something to read later on his shift which never came once the British left India!
Talk about forgotten deposits! This is not the first time that the State Bank of India is finding explosive deposits as it opens deposit boxes unclaimed for decades. In January it was reported that 12 hand grenades with detonators, a sten gun and 1,045 rounds of ammunition were found when unclaimed deposit box was opened by the Bandra's Turner Road branch of the State Bank of India. Nothing more has been heard on that find by the Police other than the fact that it could have been from the Khalistan Movement which was active in Punjab in the Eighties till the Nineties. (Hand grenades, gun found in SBI locker - Economic Times).
Who knows what else can tumble out these long forgotten lockers? But given that the weapon has lain peacefully in the locker for 83 years, the police have ruled out a possible conspiracy. The ISI has not been blamed. I am sure that this statement would put at ease the Prime Ministers of both India and Pakistan. Now that everything and anything as big or small as a nail cutter found being blamed on each other - this is one less weapon to worry about and one more display for an Indian Museum.
Trust an English Man to lock up a newspaper with his Gun, maybe something to read later on his shift which never came once the British left India!
Talk about forgotten deposits! This is not the first time that the State Bank of India is finding explosive deposits as it opens deposit boxes unclaimed for decades. In January it was reported that 12 hand grenades with detonators, a sten gun and 1,045 rounds of ammunition were found when unclaimed deposit box was opened by the Bandra's Turner Road branch of the State Bank of India. Nothing more has been heard on that find by the Police other than the fact that it could have been from the Khalistan Movement which was active in Punjab in the Eighties till the Nineties. (Hand grenades, gun found in SBI locker - Economic Times).
Who knows what else can tumble out these long forgotten lockers? But given that the weapon has lain peacefully in the locker for 83 years, the police have ruled out a possible conspiracy. The ISI has not been blamed. I am sure that this statement would put at ease the Prime Ministers of both India and Pakistan. Now that everything and anything as big or small as a nail cutter found being blamed on each other - this is one less weapon to worry about and one more display for an Indian Museum.
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