Lagatar24 Desk
New Delhi, Jan 17: The improvised explosive device (IED) found at the Ghazipur flower market on Friday was part of explosives smuggled into India from Pakistan, according to the Intelligence agencies.
Other devices discovered recently in Jammu and Kashmir and Punjab are thought to be part of the same shipment, and some devices may have been smuggled into Gujarat and Uttar Pradesh.
Intelligence agencies coordinated with Delhi police and National Security Guard (NSG) for a detailed report into the matter.
The Ghazipur device was a tiffin bomb with three kilogrammes of RDX as the primary charge and ammonium nitrate as a secondary charge, according to top Delhi Police investigators who pleaded not to be identified. The weapon, which was placed in steel tiffin with nails and ball bearings and could be detonated remotely, was packed in a steel tiffin with nails and ball bearings.
These IEDs were smuggled across the border to Indian sleeper modules and criminal gangs. This IED recovery has been linked to a terror module uncovered by Delhi Police in September 2021, with arrests in Mumbai, Lucknow, Allahabad, and Delhi. Investigators with the Delhi Police believe the IED shipment arrived in India around the time of the country’s independence.
“It appears that radicalized elements in India are being tasked from across the borders to plant devices at pre-fixed targets or use local criminal elements to do the job; a nationwide alert has been issued so that a terror strike is averted,” said a senior security official.
Meanwhile, Delhi police is scanning more than 80 CCTV located in the vicinity where the explosive was found in Gazipur.
