Bahraich: Police arrested five people in the Nanpara police station area on Monday evening for allegedly manufacturing and selling illegal sutli bombs. During the operation, police raided a rented shop and four temporary firecracker stalls, recovering 17.5 kg of sutli bombs and explosive materials.According to police, information was received during routine patrolling that sutli bombs were being manufactured and sold from a rented shop in Siddiq Madiya. Acting on the tip-off, police raided the shop and arrested Anwar Ali. During the search, officials recovered 2.6 kg of sutli bombs, 800 grams of fuse material and a bundle of sutli weighing 1.8 kg.During questioning, Ali allegedly admitted to manufacturing sutli bombs and selling them to associates. Based on his disclosure, police inspected temporary firecracker stalls at the Sahadat Inter College ground in Nanpara kasba.Police said sutli bombs were also recovered from shops operated by Jishan, Shivam Soni, Aman Soni and Mohammad Rais. The recovery included 2.45 kg from Jishan’s shop, 3.05 kg from Shivam Soni’s shop, 3.2 kg from Aman Soni’s shop and 3.15 kg from Mohammad Rais’s shop.According to police, the four shopkeepers had permission to operate Diwali firecracker stalls, but were not authorised to sell sutli bombs. Ali also did not possess a licence to manufacture or sell explosive materials.A case has been registered against all five accused at Nanpara Kotwali police station under Section 5(a) of the Explosives Act. Police later produced them before a court.The operation was conducted under the direction of SP Vishwajeet Srivastava. ASP (Rural) Durga Prasad Tiwari supervised the action, while the team was led by SHO, Nanpara Kotwali, Gursen Singh.
