Five persons were injured while trying to make a major blast by collecting gun-powder in one pack late on Sunday night. The window panes of nearby houses were broken a car parked there got damaged.
The incident was reported in Itwara area and the locals felt tremors. Talaiya police have registered a case against the miscreants.
The explosion was heard for over a mile in which nearby cars were damaged and five people sustained seriously injuries. The local people informed the Talaiya police about this. Police reached the spot and started investigating the case. FSL and BDDS teams also investigated the spot and found that injured tried to make big explosion without any ill intention and were heavily drunk. .
Police said that Vivek Kuchabandia, Birma Kuchabandia, Gaurav Kuchabandia, Akhilesh Kuchabandia, Mukul Kuchabandia have been booked and a case under sections 286, 337 and 34 of the IPC has been registered against them.
A resident of Ibrahimpura Syed Asrar Ali said that the sound of the explosion was so terrible like there was a big explosion around the house.
Last year too, the police had found that the locals of Itwara area of the same locality tried to make Pig bomb (Suar Bomb) which is a very high sound producing cracker and in the explosion last night same was again tried.
CSP Kotwali Bittu Sharma said that at 3 in the night, five youths brought a box filled with crackers and removed gun-powder and set the whole on fire which made the massive explosion. Action has been taken against the accused under the relevant sections.