Following the recovery of 79 crude bombs and other incriminating materials in West Bengal, the Election Commission of India has directed the deployment of NIA sleuths to prevent the use of crude bombs to disrupt the polling.
Acting on a tip-off received through the emergency 100 dial service, police recovered six crude bombs from a residence in the Minakhan area of North 24-Parganas district, raising fresh security concerns ahead of the elections.
Panic spread after the bombs were recovered from an abandoned well in Nayabazar area of Bhatpara Municipality 8th Ward of North 24 Parganas district.
A huge police team led by SDPO Dhiman Mitra recovered live bombs from a house of Palash Sheikh in Bagtui village. Fire brigade officials also escorted the bomb disposal squad members to the village.
The explosion took place at the Lucknow collectorate in Hazratganj, near the district magistrate's office.
The city police have seized 292 low-intensity crude bombs and arrested a person for the illegal possession of the explosives,…
