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The Delhi constabulary connected Saturday arrested 3 persons for stockpiling and repackaging firecrackers for merchantability and seized 3,580 kg of crackers from their residence successful westbound Delhi’s Rajouri Garden.
‘Tragedy averted’
The constabulary said that done the recovery, made during a raid astatine a residential premises successful Vishal Enclave connected September 25, averted a imaginable calamity successful the densely populated area.
The accused were identified arsenic Sushil Kakkar, 53, his woman Upasana, 50, and their lad Shivam, 28.
The constabulary said the household runs a store successful Moti Nagar and, up of the festive season, had turned their location into a makeshift godown for firecrackers.
“The accused were caught red-handed portion repackaging a consignment into smaller packets for sale. The household procured the firecrackers successful bulk from Meerut, Gurugram and Ghaziabad. They planned to merchantability them successful Delhi for a immense profit, successful usurpation of the Supreme Court’s prohibition connected firecrackers,” a elder constabulary serviceman said.
The crackers were packed successful consignments, suggesting that the household was already successful the process of distributing them successful the market, constabulary said.
Police fishy the household had links with wholesale suppliers successful neighbouring states, and a probe is connected to uncover the full network, the serviceman said.
