Italians held over cartridges freed
By IANSFriday, June 4, 2010
NEW DELHI - Three Italians, arrested last month after 24 live cartridges were recovered from their room in a five-star hotel here, have been set free due to lack of evidence, police said Friday.
“The Italians were set free on Wednesday as we could not make any case against them,” a police official said.
To take the investigation forward, police plan to question the previous occupants of the room in south Delhi’s Radisson Hotel, he added.
Italians Giovanni Cecconello, Donato de Angelo and Giulion Tometto were detained in connection with the recovery of the ammunition from their room May 24.
“The three had been denying their involvement and we were not able to find any evidence contrary to their claim,” the officer said.
The Italians checked into three rooms May 24 and they are said to have left the room after seven hours.
Two magazines with 24 live cartridges were found by hotel staff while cleaning one of the rooms where the three had stayed.
They were immediately traced and detained. While one was held in Mumbai, the other two where caught in Pune.
A case had been registered under the Arms Act.
