Thiruvananthapuram, March 25: The crude explosive material detected in the cargo hold of Kingfisher flight on Sunday is suspected to have been placed while the aircraft was parked at the airport at Thiruvananthapuram.
According to police, an indication to this effect was given in the First Information Report submitted before a local court at Thiruvananthapuram on Tuesday.
The flight from Bangalore arrived Thiruvananthapuram at 8.05 hrs and the explosive wrapped in a Malayalam newspaper was spotted about 10 minutes later from the cargo section by a cleaning staff engaged by the airline, the FIR submitted in the First Class Judicial Magistrate Court said.
Since Monday evening, investigators have zoomed in on three persons, including a cracker dealer, whose statements reportedly offered some clues.
They were were taken into custody from Palode near Nedumangad town, about 25 km from Thiruvananthapuram, while pursuing a lead in the form of markings in the Malayalam newspaper in which the crude device was wrapped.
N R Das, Director General of CISF, the agency in charge of airport security, would arrive here for a review of the security system at the airport.
—Agencies