Kolkata, Sept 04: Police intelligence wing was put on maximum alert in Kolkata today following the record haul of over 25,000 foreign-make AK-47 cartridges from an abandoned truck in the city yesterday. ''Our intelligence wing has been put on high alert and forces are asked to keep strict watch on the situation,'' city's Deputy Commissioner of Police (HQ) Kuldiep Singh said here.
Assuring that there was no reason for panic for people, Singh said the consignments of cartridges, recovered yesterday from south-western area of Dhabitola, were bound for Jammu and Kashmir ''possibly to help the ultra outfits''. To a question if the city was chosen as the route for dispatching RDX used in the twin blasts in Mumbai recently, as suspected by Mumbai Police, he said, ''So far, we have not found any such clue. But we remain alert.''
Meanwhile, city police sleuth chief Soumen Mitra said that the investigators were maintaining regular contacts with the Jammu and Kashmir administration as well as the Army and intelligence authorities for the second day today to unravel the cartridge mystery. ''We are making all efforts to find out the driver and the helpers of the Kashmir-bound truck, while search operations are on to trace the two Kashmiris suspected to have changed the vehicle's numberplate from Assam to Meghalaya registration,'' Mitra said. Bureau Report