bargarh police hauled huge quantity of explosive meterials

Bargarh police hauled huge quantity of explosive materials from Pudiatikira village under sadar police station limits on wee hours of Friday and arrested one accused under explosive act. However police failed to arrest another one who manages to escape soon after the raid. However police are yet to confirm the source where the material was coming to Bargarh in such a huge quantity.

Police sources said, .in a tip off police got the information and with direct supervision of the SP, police raided the house of Harekrisna Behera and one another person in the village Pudiatikira near Bargarh town and seized huge quantity of explosive materials. Police confirmed that 2100 of non-electronic detonators, 1075 of electronic detonators, huge quantity of chemicals powder including sulfur, ammonium nitrogen and phosphors and few other materials used various explosions.

“These are called IED (improvised electronic devises) and it is illegal to keep these materials with out having proper license. However we have not yet ascertained the source where such a huge quantity of explosive materials was coming to Bargarh and for what purpose he was keeping’, SP (Bargarh) S Soorya Thankappan told.

“Investigation is on to ascertain the source and the linkage of the accused persons with any outer organization. We are also trying to arrest another accused who managed to abscond from the spot”, Ms. Thankappan told.