By SNV Sudhir
Visakhapatnam, Dec 27, 2012: The city police is thoroughly investigating into a vain bid by a Kakinada-based petty trader to pilfer a truck load of lethal chemical Ammonium Nitrate (NH4NO3) from Vizag port in May.
Harbour station police last Saturday arrested Syed Bazuddin, 53, a resident of Kakinada for encouraging locals to divert a truck load of ammonium nitrate that was unloaded from a vessel at Vizag port.
Though ammonium nitrate is commonly used in making fertilizers it is also used by extremists to make improvised explosives.
Earlier, in two instances Maoists in Chhattisgarh and Maharashtra have looted huge quantities of the chemical, which was loaded in trucks.
Cops have arrested Bazuddin on December 22 and produced in a local court. He was sent to 14-day remand.
Around nine locals were taken into custody as part of investigation after Visakhapatnam Port Trust (VPT) authorities lodged a complaint with Harbour police in May this year. Thorough questioning of the nine persons led to Bazuddin and he was finally caught on last Saturday in Kakinada and was later brought to city.
It was after CISF personnel intercepted a truck loaded with ammonium nitrate while going out of the port premises without valid records that the VPT authorities lodged complaint with the police.
It is now being investigated about the intention of Bazuddin to pilfer such a huge quantity of ammonium nitrate, which can be used as basic explosive to trigger mayhem.
It is now being investigated about the intention of Bazuddin to pilfer such a huge quantity of ammonium nitrate, which can be used as basic explosive to trigger mayhem.
“We have questioned around nine persons one after the other. Linking the information given by each we have arrested Bazuddin, who is a scrap dealer. Further investigation is on,” Harbour police station CI, Ch. Bapuji told this newspaper.
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