A preliminary investigation into the seizure of explosives from a house in Sector 31 here suggests that the cache could be part of a “military supply”, the Gurugram police said on Wednesday.
The police ruled out any “terror angle” to the seizure, and hoped to track the weapons trail through ordnance factories in Tamil Nadu and Madhya Pradesh.
Speaking to The Hindu, Aman Yadav, Assistant Commissioner of Police (Sadar), said the explosives appeared to be “very old” and the marking on them suggested they could be part of a military supply.
“Going by the markings we suspect the explosives were either made at ordnance factory in Madhya Pradesh’s Khamaria or in Tamil Nadu’s Sivakasi. We need to find out the batch of these explosives and to whom these were supplied. It could help us connect the dots and reach the source of the explosives at the Sector 31 house,” said Mr. Yadav.
Two hand grenades, 17 practice hand grenades (MK 90), a five-foot-long Bicat strip with a safety fuse, and 43 spent cartridges were found inside the house off the busy National Highway-48 on Tuesday. The explosives were successfully defused by a bomb detection and disposal squad. A case was registered under sections 4 and 5 of the Explosive Substance Act at sector 40 police station.
House owners join probe
Mr. Yadav said the house was registered in the name of Parasram Holdings, a stockbroking firm. Two of its directors, Ravinder Aggarwal and Vivek Aggarwal, have already joined the investigation and the third, Devanshu Aggarwal, is not in the town. He was also expected to join the probe soon.
The two directors purportedly told the police that they had bought the plot in 2006 and carried out the minimum construction required, as per the government norms. They had last visited the house in 2019 to clean it. A guard was hired for the first few years to keep a watch but the building was unattended for the past eight years. All its locks and latches were broken.
Police sources said all the ammunition seized from the Gurugram house were non-lethal; they were unlikely to have any “terror links”.
