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The Arwal district Superintendent of Police, Sanjay Singh, said P T Chandrasekhar was booked under the Arms Act for possessing cartridges without licence.
Azad told the police that he had sent the cartridges as a "gift". The Delhi police was expected to interrogate him in a day or two.
Azad, a resident of village Ramnagar under Karpi police station, is an unemployed graduate from a poor family.
He told the police that he got 11 live cartridges sometime back when he was travelling in a train from Patna to Asansol in West Bengal.
He had sent 10 of them to VIPs, including Defence Minister George Fernandes, Railways Minister Nitish Kumar.
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