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Police seized 2 tonnes of crackers worthy astir ₹ 20 lakh from an amerciable godown astatine Kachalnayakar colony adjacent Walajah municipality successful Ranipet connected Tuesday.
Police said that the fishy M. Dhananchezhiyan (38), an AIADMK functionary, was moving a cracker store successful Walajah municipality for Deepavali. He has illegally stored crackers successful a rented house, which was converted into a godown, successful Kachalnayakar village. He utilized to instrumentality a information of crackers from the godown to merchantability it successful his cracker store each time.
In the aftermath of the decease of 4 persons aft a occurrence broke retired astatine an amerciable cracker godown adjacent Avadi successful Chennai, Collector J. U. Chandrakala formed peculiar teams to ace specified amerciable godowns successful the district.
Based connected a extremity off, a peculiar squad comprising constabulary and gross officials led by K. Anandraj, Tasildar (Walajah), searched the rented location successful the village. The squad recovered a immense quantity of crackers stored successful the house.
The squad seized crackers, which were transported successful lorries to the authorities crackers godown successful Sholingur town. Cases were registered against Dhananchezhiyan and the houseowner Purani by Walajah constabulary nether the Explosive Substances Act 1908. A probe is nether way.
