The Tusura police in Balangir district on Sunday arrested four persons, Nirab Galla, Sunil Bhatt, lalit Kumar Upadhyay and Gajendra Chhatra, in connection with illegal trading and transporting of explosives and forwarded them to court.
This was informed at a Press conference by SDPO Narayan Naik here on Sunday.
He said that on December 1 3 morning, a truck (TN-88-A-3144) while going to Titilagarh from Balangir was dashed by two vans from behind near Ratanpur, resulting in traffic jam. Worse, the drivers of the vans picked up quarrel with the truck driver and even assaulted him.
As police from the Deogaon outpost arrived at the spot and started inquiry into the situation, they found that the vans were loaded with explosives. During verification, 1,250 kg of power Geletine and 30,000 electrical detanotors were found.
The drivers could not produce valid documents for transporting the explosives.