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Modified 'trishuls' seized

By Our Special Correspondent

JAIPUR APRIL 11. In a pre-emptive strike, the Rajasthan police today seized 650 pieces of modified "trishuls" from the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) office in Ajmer district town. The "trishuls" were purportedly kept for distribution at the "Trishul diksha" function scheduled in Ajmer on April 13.

This was the first crackdown in the State on the "diksha" programme after the Congress Government in Rajasthan issuing a notification under the Arms Act 1959, on Tuesday last putting a ban on "distribution, acquisition, possession or carrying of" double or multi-bladed sharp or pointed weapons.

The raids came in the wake of the Chief Minister, Ashok Gehlot asserting today that the law would take its course and the Home Minister, Gulab Singh Shaktawat explaining in Bhilwara the other day that the ban was meant for weapons distributed by the VHP and the Bajrang Dal in the shape of tridents.

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