In a joint operation last morning, teams of CBI and Maharashtra ATS recovered a 7.65-mm bore gun along with three live cartridges, a dagger and a sword from the residence of a friend of Sachin Andure's brother-in-law in Aurangabad. Andure is the alleged shooter of rationalist Narendra Dabholkar.

Dabholkar probe
The CBI had arrested Andure after a tip-off from the ATS. Sources said there were chances that he had met Dr Virendra Tawde, the main accused in the Dabholkar murder case. CBI officers will be sending the weapon to the Forensic Science Laboratory in Kalina for ballistic testing, to check if the gun was used to kill Dabholkar, sources in the agency said. Currently, probes in the Dabholkar case by the CBI and in a right-wing terror case by the state ATS are running parallel.