After the Pune blast, Gujarat police started checking vehicles for suspicious people.
The special operations group (SOG), Valsad, seized a large quantity of explosives and several hundred detonators during checking of vehicles at Vapi GIDC, late on Saturday night. In another operation, the police seized, on Sunday night, 100 kg of ammonium nitrate and 300 detonators near Limbdi in Surendranagar district.
Surendranagar SP Ashok Kumar said the material was seized during checking of vehicles on the national highway. “Some
people have been arrested and their interrogation is going on,” he added.
In Vapi, officials said the explosives were being taken illegally for use at a stone quarry but the SOG was, nevertheless, investigating the matter for a possible link with the bomb blast in Pune. Around 600 detonators, 200 dynamite sticks and 200 kilograms of ammonium nitrate had been seized, the Valsad police officials added. The Valsad SOG has arrested four persons in this connection and issued a search warrant for Ramesh Konkani, a constable with the Silvassa police, who allegedly supplies explosives illegally to quarry owners. Silvassa is the headquarters of Dadra and Nagar Haveli.
Sources in Valsad police sa
id that after the bomb blast in Pune on Saturday, an alert had been sounded across the state. The same evening, the Valsad police received a tip-off from ATS Gandhinagar after which the SOG began intense checking of vehicles in and around Vapi.
It was during checking of vehicles that SOG personnel found a large quantity of explosives and several hundred detonators in an Aveo car and an auto-rickshaw behind the car, at Vapi GIDC. The seized detonators, dynamite sticks and ammonium nitrate were recovered from the two vehicles.
The explosives had been purchased from a shop in the GIDC and were to be used at a stone quarry in Silvassa, police sources said. Four people were arrested for illegally owning and moving explosives from one place to another.
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