The police officials performed 'Arms Puja' at Nehru Nagar police line on Thursday marking the Dussehra. Such celebrations were held at several places in the city. On the occasion grand arrangements were made by Nehru Nagar police lines for police to perform puja of the weapons.
On the occasion IG, DIG, SSP and SP congratulated people of the city on Dussehra after performing the puja of weapons. After performing the rituals, IG and DIG tried to fire but the guns failed to fire even after several attempts. It is a ritual to fire using rifle after performing the Puja which was scheduled and was done by the senior police officers.
Senior Superintendent of Police Raman Singh Sikharwar initially tried to fire but the rifle failed and after waiting for sometime he again fired but the result was the same in the second attempt.
Inspector General of Police Yogesh Choudhary tried to fire and faced the same problem which was faced by SSP Sikharwar. Interestingly Additional Superintendent of Police Dileep Singh Tomar provided a pistol but the pistol yielded the same result and failed to fire. After embarrassment over the non-functional weapons the two officials completed the ritual using other guns.
Both IG and SSP checked the rifles and tried several times but they were not able to fire. IG, SSP, Superintendent of Police Bhopal (North) Arvind Saxena, Superintendent of Police Bhopal (South) Anshuman Saxena and Superintendent of Police (Headquarters) Anil Mishra were present on the occasion.