Stolen military explosive fuses recovered from pond in Patna

PATNA: After intensive raids for more than three days, a joint team of Railway Protection Force (RPF) and

Government Rail Police

(GRP) recovered the stolen fuses weighing around eight kilograms, used in explosive by Indian Army, from a pond near Chorwa mandir located on the outer signal of the Patna Sahib railway station in Patna on Saturday evening.

The fuses, kept inside an iron container, were loaded at Pathankot in Punjab in front parcel van of

Himgiri Express

and were being transported to Howrah. The fuses were stolen after breaking one of the padlock on shutter of parcel van between Patna Junction and Patna Sahib station on Wednesday.

Two Army personnel including Lance Naik Kalu Ram, were travelling in the coach just behind the parcel van for security reasons. Only the fuses were loaded inside the van due to security reasons.

The RPF and GRP personnel, who were on toes since Thursday morning looking at the sensitive nature of the incident, finally took a sigh of relief as they were frantically searching for the fuses thinking it might land in wrong hands.

GRP ASP (Patna)

Amritendu Shekhar Thakur

said that all five stolen fuses were thrown into the pond and were recovered by the joint team. He said that the container in which the fuses were being transported from Pathankot was also recovered from near Gulzarbagh station, just an hour before recovery of the fuses. He said that three suspects were detained by RPF who were rigorously interrogated by the joint team which finally led to recovery of the fuses after series of raids. “Several suspects were quizzed one after another on basis of information extracted from the detained suspects,”

Thakur

said.