Two more people have been arrested in connection with a blast in which two persons were injured after a parcel delivered at a house in Ahmedabad exploded, police said on Sunday.
The police apprehended the accused, Rupen Rao (44), who allegedly learned to make bombs and a country-made pistol on the internet to exact revenge on his estranged wife’s friend Baldev Sukhadia, her father and brother, who he claimed had caused his separation, an official said.
The police have recovered two more bombs, a country-made pistol, cartridges and materials used to make the weapons from the accused, he said. Rao’s wife is in the process of getting divorced, and the proceeding is in court, the official said.
The blast that occurred at a row house in the Sabarmati area around 10.45 am on Saturday had left two injured. DCP (Zone 2) Bharat Rathod said, “After the parcel delivered to Sukhadia’s house in the Sabarmati area exploded, we arrested one Gaurav Gadhavi from the spot. With the help of technical surveillance, Rao and his subordinate Rohan Raval (21) were apprehended in the night.”
The accused have been booked under relevant sections of the BNS, Arms Act and Explosive Substances Act.
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