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Grenade: official to go to Pune

Staff Reporter

Thiruvananthapuram: The Rural police questioned a 46-year-old man in connection with the discovery of an inert hand-grenade under Kallambalam police station limits last month. The "fragmentation grenade," designed to explode into 36 pieces, was discovered beneath a culvert at Koppamvila near Navaikulam on August 28.

The grenade, manufactured by the Indian Ordinance Factory in Pune in 1982, was found to be a "dead" one. The investigators found that some people had heard an explosion a day after the grenade was discovered from the yard of a house near the culvert. The owner of the house had suffered burns in the explosion and he was admitted to the hospital. The police found that the man had worked for some years in the civil defence force at Andaman and Nicobar Islands and had also served in the local police there.

The man told the police that he had suffered the burns when burning garbage. A senior official said they were not taking his statement at face value. Experts from the Forensic Sciences Laboratory inspected the yard where the alleged explosion occurred.

The police suspect the person to have sourced the grenade from some paramilitary unit in Andaman and Nicobar Islands. A police official is being sent to the Central Government-owned ordinance factory in Kirky near Pune to find to which unit the grenade was issued.

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