Vadodra, September 27: The Detection of Crime Branch (DCB) and Panigate police recovered two crude bombs near Sulaimani Chawl in Panigate in Vadodara city in the early hours of Sunday. Six such bombs were recovered from Yakutpura two days ago.
The DCB said the bombs were kept in a plastic bag in an open compound outside a residential apartment.
On a tip-off, a team of DCB and Panigate police officers began searching Sulaimani Chawl and the neighbouring areas around 3:30 am on Sunday morning.
Panigate Inspector S J Banker said: “We did not find anything from Sulaimani Chawl. We found the bombs in an open compound opposite the neighbouring Medina Apartment . These were kept in earthen vessels and covered with soil. The vessels were covered with a large handkerchief and kept in a plastic bag in a corner.”
Panigate police officers said one suspect, Mohammad Zuber, was picked up for questioning.
The DCB is yet to establish a connection between the recovery of the six crude bombs from Yakutpura on Friday and those recovered from Panigate today.
A DCB officer said: “There is a possibility that these explosives were planted in the open compound to implicate the residents of the area. But one person has been picked up for questioning.”
Incidentally, the police have not arrested a single person in connection with the the recovery of explosives from the two localities. Three among the 20 questioned so far from Sulaimani Chawl and Yakutpura in connection with Friday’s recovery Moin Mehboobkhan Pathan, brother Mazharkhan Pathan and their uncle Mushtaqkhan Pathan were detained by Surat police. They were picked up from the house of a doctor from Saiyyadpura, Mohammad Ali Ahmad Shaikh, the maternal uncle of Moin and Mazhar.
——–Agencies