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Huge cache of arms and ammunitions seized from Thane
Mumbai, May 14: A huge cache of arms and ammunition, including more than 200 crude bombs, was recovered from a well in a village in the neighbouring Thane district, police said today.
Mumbai, May 14: A huge cache of arms and ammunition, including more than 200 crude bombs, was recovered from a well in a village in the neighbouring Thane district, police said today.
Crime branch-CID sleuths last night recovered the explosives from the Borivli-Pagda village in the Bhivandi Taluka, about 60 kms from here. The ammunition is being sent for forensic analysis to the Central Forensic Laboratory here.
Police said the seizure came after the interrogation of Saquib Nachan, the prime suspect in the Mulund and Ghatkopar blasts and Anwar Ali, a part-time lecturer with the National Defence Academy (NDA) near Pune. Two weeks back, the Mumbai Police had recovered four Kalasnikov rifles and chemicals like nitric and sulphuric acid, ammonium nitrate and potassium cyanide from the same village. Two arms training camps in the Mauli and Karva Hills were also busted besides a terrorist module backed by Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) and Lashkar-e-Toiba.
Nachan had organised the camps, where as many as 12 persons had been trained in the last two years while Anwar Ali, the ''ad hoc'' lecturer, is said to have harboured the three terrorists of the outlawed Lashkar-e-Toiba, who were gunned down during an encounter with the Andheri Crime Intelligence Unit (CIU).
Those who were killed in the encounter included Abu Sultan, the southern commander of the Lashkar-e-Toiba.
Bureau Report
Police said the seizure came after the interrogation of Saquib Nachan, the prime suspect in the Mulund and Ghatkopar blasts and Anwar Ali, a part-time lecturer with the National Defence Academy (NDA) near Pune. Two weeks back, the Mumbai Police had recovered four Kalasnikov rifles and chemicals like nitric and sulphuric acid, ammonium nitrate and potassium cyanide from the same village. Two arms training camps in the Mauli and Karva Hills were also busted besides a terrorist module backed by Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) and Lashkar-e-Toiba.
Nachan had organised the camps, where as many as 12 persons had been trained in the last two years while Anwar Ali, the ''ad hoc'' lecturer, is said to have harboured the three terrorists of the outlawed Lashkar-e-Toiba, who were gunned down during an encounter with the Andheri Crime Intelligence Unit (CIU).
Those who were killed in the encounter included Abu Sultan, the southern commander of the Lashkar-e-Toiba.
Bureau Report