"No Explosive Content" In Bomb Found In Chandigarh, Says Army's Report

A day after experts from the Army removed a "live" explosive found in a mango garden, the Chandigarh police were informed on Wednesday that there was no explosive content in the bombshell.

Police officials said the bombshell was an obsolete one that was manufactured in the 1960s by the Indian Ordnance Factory.

"Today, we received a detailed report from them (Army) as per which it was not a live explosive. There was no explosive content in this shell.

"After examining the markings on it, the Army officials said that it was manufactured in Indian Ordnance Factory. In the 1960s, such shells were manufactured and to fire these a mounted weapon system like a tank is required," Chandigarh's Senior Superintendent of Police, Manisha Choudhary, told reporters here.

She said these shells are now no longer used by the Army.

"The shell was spotted in the mango garden by a passerby. On preliminary examination, we felt that the Army uses such shells in artillery after which we requested its Western Command to send their expert team to examine the shell," Choudhary said, adding they (Army) had taken it with them on Tuesday for its disposal.

The Army's bomb disposal experts had on Tuesday removed the shell, which was found a day earlier close to the helipad used by Punjab and Haryana chief ministers.

Some officials from the civil administration who reached the spot had termed the shell as a live one.

The area where the shell was discovered lies in Chandigarh, close to the Chandigarh-Punjab border.

The shell was found on Monday in a mango garden on the Nayagaon-Kansal T-point, which is about a kilometre from the helipad and about two kilometres from the official residences of Punjab and Haryana chief ministers.

The police have questioned several people, including many scrap dealers in nearby areas, for clues on how the bomb would have reached the mango garden.

When asked, SSP Choudhary said their (Army authorities') guess was such shells after being fired in training range of the Army are picked up by scrap dealers as they have metal.

There have been cases previously when discarded shells were found here, the SSP said.

"The area is near Chandigarh-Punjab border and we have also informed Punjab authorities," she said.

On Monday, Sanjeev Kohli, nodal officer, disaster management, Chandigarh, had said that when they checked it (bombshell), it was a "live shell".

"It is a matter of investigation how this shell got here," he had said.

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The Afghan news agency said Taliban officials are yet to comment on the explosions in the capital city.

The blasts come only three days after at least 10 people were killed and eight others seriously injured in an explosion that rocked the Kabul military airport, on Sunday, Khaama Press reported.

Taliban Interior Ministry spokesperson Abdul Nafee Takkur said the explosion caused injuries close to the military airport's main gate in Kabul.

The war-torn county has witnessed increasing security incidents in the past few months.

Last month, a Chinese-owned hotel was targeted in the heart of Kabul.

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Assam Government To Take Action Against Officials For Illegal Demolition

Appropriate action will be taken against erring officials for demolishing houses of those accused of setting a police station in Nagaon district on fire, the Assam government has informed the Gauhati High Court.

Hearing a suo motu public interest litigation, a division bench comprising Chief Justice R M Chhaya and Justice Soumitra Saikia on Tuesday directed the state government to compensate people affected by the demolitions.

"D Saikia, learned Advocate General, Assam states that a Committee consisting of the Chief Secretary is enquiring into the incidence of bulldozing of the house and appropriate action shall be taken even against the erring officers within a period of 15 days from today," said the order.

The Court noted that upon such assurance and in view of the fact that the state is now seized of the matter, it is "expected that the state shall also take appropriate decision for compensating the persons affected by the illegal action".

The order asked the government to submit a report of the steps before the high court in this proceeding.

Though the bench disposed of the PIL, it stated that the case can be revived "merely by filing a note".

The Batadrava police station was set on fire on May 21 last year by an irate mob following the custodial death of a local fish trader, Safikul Islam (39), who was picked up by police the night before.

A day later, district authorities bulldozed at least six houses, including those of Islam and his relatives, purportedly in search of weapons and drugs hidden beneath the structures.

Earlier in November last year, the Chief Justice had pulled up the Assam government over its action and wondered if "tomorrow you need something, you will dig up my court room".

The Gauhati High Court had then stressed that "bulldozing of a house is not provided under any criminal law" even if an agency is investigating a "very serious matter".

The Chief Justice had further stated that incidents of such bulldozing of houses is done in movies, and even in those, the search warrant is shown before the act.

Justice Chhaya had even equated bulldozing of the houses to an act in a "gang war" and asked the Home Department to find better ways of carrying out their investigation.

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