CNN Central News & Networks / ITDC India ePress / ITDC News /Agencies/ Delhi: New Delhi. Police in Delhi’s north-east Gokalpuri area have busted an illegal firecracker-manufacturing factory and arrested three people. The alleged manufacturing and storage of firecrackers without permission was taking place on the second floor of a residential house. During the raid, police recovered a large quantity of finished and semi-finished firecrackers along with suspected explosive powder.
According to police, on October 26, Gokalpuri police station received information that firecrackers were being made illegally at a house in Gali No. 14 of Gokalpur village. A team then raided the spot. The three youths present there were asked to produce the required licence or permission documents for manufacturing and storing firecrackers, but they could not show valid papers.
During the search, police seized 880 finished cold pyro firecrackers kept in five boxes, 600 semi-finished firecrackers and around 34 kilograms of suspected explosive powder. Empty firecracker shells, a filling machine, a weighing machine and packaging material were also recovered.
The arrested accused have been identified as Mohit Goswami (29), Arman (24) and Sameer (21). All three are stated to be residents of Farrukhnagar in Ghaziabad district of Uttar Pradesh. According to police, no previous criminal record of the accused has been found.
A case has been registered at Gokalpuri police station under relevant sections of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita and the Explosives Act. Police are now trying to ascertain where the explosive material was brought from and where the finished firecrackers were to be supplied. Such activity in a residential area could have posed a serious risk of fire and explosion. The investigation is continuing.
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