Police recovered an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) weighing 1.16 kg in Haryana’s Kaithal district on Monday. The IED was loaded with RDX and was recovered from the roadside at Kainchi Chowk village on the Jind road, police said. Acting on a tip-off, the Special Task Force (STF) of the Haryana Police recovered the IED in the evening. “The IED weighs 1.16 kg,” Inspector Ramlal of Titram police station said over the phone. It was kept in an iron box, he added.
The area was sealed off and a bomb disposal unit was called in to defuse the explosive, police said. A case has been registered under the provisions of the Explosive Substances Act, the SHO said. The STF recovered an IED loaded with about 1.3 kg of RDX from a location near Shahabad in Kurukshetra district last month. In May, the Haryana police arrested four people from Karnal and three IEDs packed in a metal casing, each weighing 2.5 kg, and a pistol was seized from them. In March, three live hand grenades were found on abandoned land near a public school in Sadopur village near the Ambala-Chandigarh highway.
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