
Banaskantha Police on Thursday acquired an eight-day remand of a father-son duo, the accused within the case of a blast at a firecracker warehouse within the district, which on Tuesday killed 21 individuals, together with 7 youngsters.
The accused Khubchand Renumal Mohanani and his son Deepak Khubchand Mohanani are the house owners of Deepak Merchants, which owns the warehouse. They had been detained on Tuesday and booked for culpable murder not amounting to homicide, and different sections of the BNS, in addition to The Explosives Act, 1884, and The Explosive Substances Act, 1908, at Deesa Rural police station.
Banaskantha SP Akshayraj Makwana mentioned that each the accused had been formally positioned beneath arrest late on Wednesday evening, and subsequently produced in an area courtroom on Thursday. The courtroom granted the police the eight-day remand of the accused that can finish on April 11.
In accordance with Banaskantha Superintendent of Police (SP) Akshayraj Makwana, the 4 individuals detained on Wednesday embody a brother of Deepak; an accountant, one other particular person coping with GST billing of Deepak Merchants, and a fourth one who, the police have alleged, was concerned in making an attempt to cover or destroy the cell phone units of Khubchand and Deepak.
As on Thursay night, the 4 individuals remained beneath detention and had been being questioned about their alleged position within the incident.
In the meantime, SP Makwana mentioned that each the Particular Investigation Groups (SITs) — one comprising Banaskantha cops and led by DySP C L Solanki, and one other headed by IAS Bhavin Patel of the Income Division — fashioned after the incident, have begun their investigations.
The police additionally revealed that main evaluation of the FSL investigation on the web site of the tragedy discovered traces of two chemical substances — aluminium powder and Yellow Dextrin powder. Aluminium powder is extremely flammable and is used to create the flash impact by firecrackers whereas Yellow Dextrin is used as a binding agent
SP Makwana earlier mentioned, “This agency had bought this aluminium powder from a Mumbai-based firm and we’re investigating why this substance was bought.”
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