The Bollarum police in Hyderabad recovered 160 electric detonators stuffed in a plastic bucket at a private venture close to the firing range of the Madras Regiment area in the Secunderabad Cantonment, officials said on Thursday. This comes three days after weapons and ammunition were stolen from the cantonment.
Police registers case against detonator placement
Sridhar, however, said the Bollarum police registered a case under the Explosive Substances Act and launched an investigation to determine who placed the detonators at the location, when they were brought there and for what purpose. A burglary case was registered following the complaint, and a multi-agency investigation was launched to trace the missing weapons and ammunition. Police and Army personnel subsequently alerted the bomb disposal squad, which examined and seized the detonators. “The police immediately seized the detonators with the help of a bomb disposal squad. The bomb disposal squad has inspected the scene, while police are continuing searches in the surrounding areas and attempting to establish the source and intended use of the detonators. Further probe is under way.
Preliminary findings showed that the 160 electrical detonators had been arranged in eight bundles of 20 each.
We are trying to find out the source of the detonators,” the officer said. An Army Subedar had alerted the Bollaram police late on Wednesday after the detonators were noticed in an abandoned light-green plastic bucket in the private venture behind the firing range, according to another police officer.
North Zone deputy commissioner of police Ch Sridhar told reporters that the detonators were found in Golf Enclave private venture while checks were being carried out in the surrounding areas as part of investigation into the arms theft case at the regiment.
