Four more sites with firecrackers stashed unearthed | Lucknow News
Lucknow: Police on Monday carried out raids and unearthed at least four more sites used for storing and preparing crackers within a 100-metre radius of one of the blast sites in Behta. The police recovered huge quantities of explosive materials hidden in ponds, vacant plots, and underground pits.Combing, crackdown Police teams, assisted by the bomb disposal squad scoured every corner of the village with metal detectors. SHO Gudamba Prabhatesh Kumar Shrivastava said, “Tons of raw materials like paper rolls, thread spools, and sacks of finished crackers were recovered.” A villager, Salman, claimed he saw a woman carrying explosives at night and throwing them into a pond. The places from where the stock of crackers were seized on Monday also belonged to their distant relatives who have been in the same business for ages. Explosives dumped, and destroyed Under the supervision of DCP East Shashank Singh, police raided houses, sheds, and fields. The BDS dug up explosive containers buried underground, while several half-filled goods were destroyed by dousing them with water. ACP confirmed that four half-filled containers were recovered safely and shifted to a secure location. Some of the largest stashes were traced to plots owned by license holders Shoaib and Bilkis.
