Crude bomb explosion in Puttur: Accused arrested
Puttur, October 27: Local police arrested an accused in Kerala on charges of attempting to demolish a house by blasting a crude bomb.
On October 15 night, accused Babu alias Balan has conspired to blast the house of Narayana Prasad at Polya in Kabaka village. Under the direction of SP Dr Ravikanthe Gowda and guidance of Puttur CPI Thimmappa Nayak, SI Ajay and Puttur city police have arrested the accused in Kerala after 11 days of operation.
It is said that the accused is hailed from Ernakulam in Kerala. He has allegedly exploded crude bomb in front of the house of Narayana Prasad, whose wife sustained injuries in the incident and admitted to a hospital. Out of three crude bombs, one bomb was exploded and remaining two were recovered. After the incident, the SP has constituted three teams to arrest the accused. Among three teams, one team led by SI Ajay camped in Kerala from October 16 and arrested the accused.
The accused was produced before the court which remanded him to police custody for five days for interrogation.
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Illegally stored gas cylinders seized
Thane (PTI): Authorities have seized illegally stored 1,839 gas cylinders and seven vehicles worth over Rs 67 lakh in the Dombivli MIDC area of Thane district, officials said on Saturday.
A special vigilance team of the Mumbai Rationing Department detected an illegal storage of domestic and commercial LPG cylinders in Phase-2 of Dombivli (East).
Cylinders belonging to multiple gas agencies were found stockpiled in closed vehicles, unauthorised warehouses, and open sheds without mandatory permissions from the Explosives Department, Fire Department, or oil companies, according to an official release.
