Six days after startling discovery of 18 kg of crude bomb materials in abandoned area in Manor, Palghar, it has been determined by FSL that explosives were RDX, ammonium nitrate and gelatine sticks
Cops also recovered old clothes from the site
Six days after the startling discovery of 18 kg of crude bomb materials in an abandoned area during a joint ATS and Mumbai police crime branch raid in Manor, Palghar, it has been determined by the FSL that the explosives were RDX, ammonium nitrate and gelatine sticks.
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The site of the raid where the explosives were found in Palghar
On October 27, acting on a tip-off from the Intelligence Bureau to the city top cop, who passed on the lead to the anti-terrorism squad, the joint operation was conducted, which led to the large quantities of explosives. Following the raid, the Mumbai ATS submitted 16 samples to the Forensic Science Laboratories (FSL). The report will be submitted to the ATS in a week’s time.\
Shocker to cops
The ATS is stunned by the development as there are two concerning elements that have come to the fore.
First, they are worried about the quantities of RDX and ammonium nitrate, widely used in the past by terrorist outfits to carry out blasts in Mumbai.
Second, the place where the ATS found the explosives is very close to the Arabian Sea, so the ATS suspects that the importers must have landed there. Also buoying their theory is the fact that clothes were also found at the spot, indicating that people might have lived there for a while.
Additionally concerning, several detonators have been recovered by the ATS.
However, sources in the ATS confirmed to mid-day that they were destroyed on the spot itself, adding it is very dangerous to carry detonators, so the officials decided to tackle it immediately.
Case registered
The Mumbai ATS has registered a case at the Kalachowkie police station under section 4 (Punishment for attempt to cause explosion, or for making or keeping explosive with intent to endanger life or property) and 5 (Punishment for making or possessing, explosives under suspicious circumstances) of the Explosive Substance Act. More sections have been added, but the ATS is tight-lipped about it to avoid creating panic.
Matter of concern
The Anti-Terrorism Squad is worried about the quantities of RDX and ammonium nitrate, widely used in the past by terrorist outfits to carry out blasts in Mumbai.
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