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Bihar police seize huge cache of explosives in VVIP area | Bihar police seized a huge cache of explosives here on Thursday while being smuggled through a truck to Nepal in a consignment. The truck caught police attention after it
entered the area where the residences of the state Governor and the Chief Minister
are located. Entry of vehicles in this neighbourhood is restricted and this aroused
the suspicion of the police patrol stationed in the area that instantly intercepted
the truck. According to the police officials, the seized items included around
200,000 detonators out of which 1,50,000 were electric and the rest 50,000 were
plain manual ones. "We were patrolling for the shutdown on the 28th when we saw
one truck and a Maruti car entering a highly restricted VIP area, where the Governor
and the Chief Minister of the state reside. We then followed the truck and the
car. However, the car managed to escape but we managed to stop the truck and
detain
it. There was definitely some motive behind this. We have took the driver and
the helper into our custody and are investigating further," said Naresh Prasad
Sharma, a police official. Interestingly, the security measures for the day was
tight in view of the protest march and shut down call given by the State's main
opposition party, Rashtriya Janata Dal. The truck's driver has been identified
as Niyat. "I just know that there are explosives in around 155 boxes. The person
who told us to transport this material said that this material is regularly transported
to Nepal as such there won't be any problem. Therefore, I loaded the material
in the truck after getting orders from our boss. The police caught us when we
entered into a wrong lane," said Niyat, the arrested driver. The police have stated
that the truck was coming from Rajasthan and going towards Nepal. |
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