The two persons who were held with explosives in Shankar Nagar on Sunday have been sent on seven-day police custody remand. Superintendent of Police (Raipur) OP Pal informed on Monday that the both of them are under interrogation and asserted that police would be able to pull out valuable information from them.
Additional Superintend of Police (City) Dr lal Umed Singh told with The Pioneer that Babulal Sharma who is a Tendu-Patta businessman used to stay in guest house of another businessman Kamal Kishor Vyas located in Shankar Nagar area.
Police has rounded up Vyas and is also interrogating him about his possible involvement in the case. Meanwhile police have booked Babula Sharma and Tarak Kundu under Unlawful Activity Prevention Act, Explosives Act, Chhattisgarh Special Public Security Act and other sections of Indian Penal Code (IPC). Police further informed that Babulal is President of Bande Transporters Association in Kanker district and owns several vehicles which used run between Raipur and Bastar. Babulal frequently used to visit Raipur and police is now investigation connections of Babulal in Raipur.
Meanwhile sources informed that based on initial inputs provided by duo police teams are conducting raids in the city to expose other members of Naxal urban network. Notable, Babulal and Kundu were arrested with explosives and other items including a letter from a Maoist Commander near Shankar Nagar railway crossing on Sunday morning. In all 32 pieces of detonators, Oxygen Cylinder, cooking gas cylinder, copper wires, 10 dynamites, small nut bolts, battery, torches, DVD, CD along with some documents was seized from their possession.
Police informed that Kundu was destined to reach Bastar with explosives while Babula would stay in Raipur to get new consignment. Police asserted that the explosives were meant for Naxal training camps in Bastar area.