An army jawan was caught at the Srinagar airport with a bullet in his baggage on Tuesday, just a day after another soldier was caught with live ammunition including two grenades in his baggage at the same airport.

The jawan, Pandia Raj, was booked on an Indigo flight to Delhi and was stopped when the anti-hijacking team posted at the main gate of the airport spotted the bullet in his baggage on Tuesday. The police said he was posted with the Army Medical Corps at the field hospital in Baramulla district of Jammu and Kashmir.

But the police believe the bullet got into his baggage by mistake.

"During screening of baggage, a bullet was recovered. It looks like that jawan had inadvertently carried the bullet in his baggage. He might have forgotten it in the bag," said Manzoor Ahmad Dalal, the senior superintendent of police anti-hijacking Srinagar airport.

Dalal added that the jawan had been handed over to the army.