Team of experts disposed-off scrapped defence explosives at scrap godown of Shameem Kabadi in Khajri-Khiriya early morning on Wednesday. It may be noted that following the investigation in case of explosion at the scrap godown, investigating team found huge cache of scrapped 125-mm and 30-mm ammunitions. According to sources, experts’ team disposed-off around 200 shells of ammunitions at the site of explosion. Team buried the scrapped ammunition shells into a big dig under sacks of sand in the early morning hours for avoiding any kind of untoward incident. During the disposal of ammunition shells, heavy police force was deployed in the area to avert entry of residents.

 

Central Investigation Agencies include National Investigation Agency (NIA), National Security Guard (NSG), Military Intelligence (MI) and district agencies are investigating the case to ascertain reason behind the explosion. Besides this, Police already arrested Haji Faheem (37), resident of Saifnagar Raddi Chowki in Gohalpur and his partner Sultan (29), resident of HIG Anand Nagar in Adhartal. In the interrogation, Faheem disclosed that they had obtained wreckage of ammunitions from Ordnance Factory Khamaria and Amla Airforce in Betul.

 

On their identification, investigation teams contacted the concerned officers of Ordnance Factory Khamaria and Amla Airforce Betul and collected information about auction of ammunition scraps. On the other hand, continuing a thorough search for absconding Shameem Kabadi, police received unconfirmed information that he escaped from India and hiding in Pakistan or Dubai as he has good contacts in both the countries and his daughter-in-law and wife of Faheem also belongs to Pakistan.