Nasik, Nov 06: Police have arrested one person and seized a stock of explosives, including gelatin sticks and detonators, worth Rs 1.78 lakh near a hotel on Mumbai-Agra National Highway here. Acting on a tip off that explosives were being transported illegally in a tempo, police laid a trap near Hotel Shalimar on highway bypass and intercepted the vehicle. On searching, police found these explosives last night.


The tempo driver Anil Damu Ingale (29) was arrested and remanded to police custody yesterday, police said, adding that it was not known immediately from where explosives were being transported to.

Bureau Report