Hyderabad, Jan. 3 -- A US-made Colt rifle and an Israeli Tavor rifle are among the 48 firearms handed over to the police by the 20 CPI (Maoist) cadre who surrendered before the Telangana Police, forcing the investigators to probe the source of the "foreign" weapons.

"We are verifying the sources of the weapons. It was probably looted from the security forces during attacks," said Telangana Director General of Police (DGP) B Shivadhar Reddy.

The other firearms handed over to the police included light machine guns (LMG), AK-47 rifles, Indian small arms system (INSAS) rifles, self-loading rifles (SLR), barrel grenade launcher (BGL), single-shot gun, air gun, two grenades and 2,206 rounds of ammunition.

According to sources in the Telangan...