Cache of explosives seized

The CEO of Hyderabad-based Lekcon Infrastructure Pvt Ltd and nine of its workers were arrested on Friday in connection with recovery of huge cache of explosives from an area adjacent to the company’s crusher unit at Pottrel.

On a tip off, SP Akhileswar Singh along with a team of cops and BSF jawans rushed to the spot and recovered the explosives  hidden in a hill.

The seizure included six timer bombs, 10 kg camphor and potasium nitrate, 12 gel liquid packets, gelatin sticks, 9,935 bundles of wires, a mobile bomb, 100 litres of acid and Maoist literature.

Police said that two explosives-laden vehicles from Hyderabad had reached the crusher site on Thursday midnight.

While the CEO has been identified as A Bhoopal, the others are NV Ravi Kumar, P J Yoganand, C Sudhakar Naidu, G Ratnam, K  Sudhakar, K Benumadhav, Pradeep Biswal and Y Lingamayah and Raj Kishore Dash. Another worker of the company who is also wanted by the police, Karunakar Reddy, managed to escape.

While Pradeep Biswal is a native of Malkangiri, the other eight hail from Andhra Pradesh, police said.