Hazaribagh police seized huge quantity of explosives from a van on Wednesday evening. Police has also arrested four persons involved in this illegal trade of explosives.
Superintendent of Police, Hazaribagh, Akhilesh Jha said that an information came on his cell phone that a van is carrying huge quantity of explosives. After this information Hazaribagh police started special vehicle checking drive on Ranchi-Patna road near the Ichak more.
During this drive when police team tried to stop a van, the van driver left the van and ran away from there. Police seized the van and started searching it. The team recovered 4,200 gelatin and 1,250 detonators from the seized vans.
“During investigation we found that the owner of the van is Praveen Mehta of Punadih village of Domchach block of Koderma district and the explosives loaded on it was of Basudev Mehta of the same block,” he added.
Police then arrested four persons namely Ghanshyam Mehta, Mekesh Mehta, Pankaj Mehta and Neeraj Thakur. All arrested persons are the resident of Tilra village of Ichak block of Hazaribagh district.
The SP said that the explosive was being transported for the use in the illegal stone mining in the Ichal block. He said that there is a possibility they were supplying these explosives to the banned naxal organisations.
On Thursday all the arrested persons were presented in the court, from where they were sent to Hazaribagh central jail. The police team constituted for this operation was headed by DSP rural Dinesh Kumar Gupta and OIC Ichak police station Rajeev Kumar Singh.