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600 gelatin sticks, 200 detonators and 230 cartridge shells seized from a Nepali trio in West Bengal

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Police found 200 detonators, more than 600 gelatin sticks and 230 cartridge shells and arrested three persons at Pradhan Nagar in Siliguri.

The three were residents of Nepal and staying in Assam More area under Pradhannagar police station limits for last six months, Commissioner of Police, Siliguri, C S Lepcha said.

“As many as 609 gelatin sticks, 200 detonators and 640 metres of codex cables were seized from the trio,” Siliguri Police Commissioner C.S. Lepcha told the media here

They were picked up following a tip-off and police were trying to ascertain why so many detonators were stockpiled at their rented accommodation.

Bringing back memories of Khargragore in Burdwan, the explosives were seized from a rented house where the couple lived.

Sleuths did not rule out connection with terrorist organizations and further probe is on.

Acting on specific information, police on Saturday night raided the rented house of Dawa Tshering Bhutia at Darjeeling More and recovered 609 gelatin sticks and 200 detonators and 630 meter long codex wire.

They were identified as Krishnaprasad Adhikary, 50, and a couple – Puja Limbu and Dawang Shering Bhutia, 40.

“It seems they were supposed to deliver the explosives. We are trying to ascertain whether the trio has links with Nepal’s Maoists or insurgents active in India’s north-eastern states,” he said.

“The couple were running a small hotel for a year in Silguri,” a local said.

The three earlier lived in neighbouring Assam’s Silchar and told the sleuths they had worked in a mine there (in Silchar).

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