India, March 22 -- A 23-year-old hotel supplier, Abdul Rehman, was arrested on Friday after hotel staff discovered a hand grenade inside his bag of during a routine verification check at a hotel in the Sampigehalli region of Bengaluru urban district, police said.

Rehman, a resident of Bellahalli, had recently started working at the hotel. When staff requested his Aadhaar card for verification, he failed to provide it even after two days, police said.Suspicious, the hotel employees inspected his bag, which was kept in a shed where he was staying and found a grenade inside, police added.

Sampigehalli police confirmed the presence of the explosive and took Rehman into custody for questioning. During interrogation, he reportedly claimed tha...