Mumbai, Oct 22: Police has recovered a large cache of detonators and ammonium nitrate powder, and arrested three persons on Bhiwandi-Chinchwati road in thane district late last night, police said here today. Over 700 detonators and nearly 750 kg of ammonium nitrate powder were seized from the trio, police said.
The trio, who were carrying the explosives in a four-wheeler, have been arrested for not possessing documents to own and transport the explosives, sources said.
The suspects were being questioned to know where the explosives were being taken, although Mumbai police officials have dismissed that the explosives could have landed in the hands of subversive elements.
"The detonators were perhaps being taken for quary detonation use," Mumbai Joint Commissioner of Police (Crime) Satya Pal Singh told a news agency. Bureau Report