The Daltonganj police recovered six crude bombs in a highly congested locality of the town on Thursday. Each of the six crude bombs called Sutli Bomb weigh approximately 150 grams or so. These six bombs have been isolated and kept in water for its neutralisation. The DSP Prabhat Ranjan Barwar has confirmed the recovery of these six crude bombs. Barwar said the police got a tip-off about these bombs kept hidden in a ‘juta dabba’.
The juta dabba was kept under a half-constructed building belonging to a minority, who hails from a village under Panki police station. Police sources said in the third week of January, they had recovered a crude bomb in the congested locality of the town Daltonganj incidentally on the day, the security adviser left wing extremism K Vijay Kumar and the DGP Rajeev Kumar were here.
To a question that on both the occasions, the crude bombs were recovered in a highly congested localities, the DSP said this is under the scrutiny of the police. The DSP agreed that some criminals from outside Palamu are found to be sneaking in the town. The DSP denied any other link like that of extremism in the recovery of the crude bombs. The officer in-charge of the Daltonganj police station Veyas Ram said these crude bombs could be for settlement of land dispute as in the previous recovery of one bomb in the month of January land dispute was the reason behind the bomb.