Tehta police outpost Officer-in-charge Amarendra Kumar said that the incident occurred when the minister's security guard, Jitendra Paswan, was fast asleep in a room built under a water tank at Sugaon village by keeping the carbine and cartridges in a bag last night.
When he woke up in the morning today, he found that the bag was missing, Officer-in-charge said adding that Additional Superintendent of Police Anil Kumar inquired about the incident after reaching Sugaon village, the minister's native village.