Overview
- Crime Branch officers apprehended Rakesh Ramesh Dubbula, a Navy Agniveer, and his brother Umesh in Asifabad, Telangana, and recovered an INSAS rifle with three magazines containing about 40 rounds.
- CCTV footage shows the intruder entering Navy Nagar in uniform using identification, posing as a Quick Response Team reliever, taking the rifle from junior sailor Alok Kaushal Kishore Singh, and tossing it over the wall to an accomplice.
- Investigators are examining motive, including a possible plan to sell the weapon to Naxal groups, which police describe as a line of inquiry given the suspects’ home district.
- A Board of Inquiry is underway within the Navy, Naval Police are questioning personnel, and investigators are assessing potential procedural lapses or insider involvement.
- An FIR was filed at Cuffe Parade police station, the NIA and ATS have joined the probe, and the arrested brothers are being brought to Mumbai for further interrogation.