A huge stock of explosives, including 1325 detonators, 980 gelatin rods and 12 bags of ammonium nitrate was recovered from the house of Ramsinghashan Gupta at Kharani village in the Dumka district and two persons arrested, here on Thursday, SP, YS Ramesh said.
\Ramesh said, “Based on a tip-off, police conducted raids at the house of Ram Singhashan Gupta in Kharoni village on Thursday morning. 1325 detonators, 2 quintal ammonium nitrate, 980 gelatin rods, and exploder and other material used for explosion have been recovered."
Two persons identified as Jogendra Manjhi (39) and Kirandeo Nath (25) have been arrested in this connection.
"Both of them do not have any licence to store explosive material. Generally, those who are engaged in mining
use these explosive materials for carrying out mining activities. However, both of them do not have a mining lease," he said.