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Two persons were arrested successful 2 abstracted operations by the Delhi Police’s Crime Branch for storing a full of 725 kg of firecrackers, an authoritative said connected Tuesday.
This comes astatine a clip erstwhile Delhi-NCR awaits the Supreme Court’s last bid connected the prohibition connected crackers successful the region.
Acting connected a tip-off, a squad raided a location successful Uttam Nagar and apprehended Gaurav Gupta, the serviceman said, adding that 77 kg of firecrackers were recovered from his residence. The accused, Gupta, who earlier sold firecrackers with a valid licence till 2022, continued the commercialized contempt the prohibition connected the merchantability and usage of prohibited fireworks, constabulary said.
In different raid, the squad apprehended Rajeev Kumar, 52, a nonmigratory of Najafgarh, aft recovering 648 kg of amerciable firecrackers stored astatine a retention portion successful Shyam Vihar.
The items were kept nether the guise of a carton retention portion successful a densely populated area, posing a superior menace to nationalist safety, the constabulary said.
