A joint team of flying squad, fire brigade and police raided the godown. (Representative)
Gurugram:
A joint team of Chief Minister’s flying squad, fire brigade and police raided a godown under Farrukhnagar police station area here and seized over 8,300 kg of banned firecrackers worth Rs 80 lakh. Officials gave this information on Saturday.
He told that the raids on the godown named ‘Jai Mata Di’ built in seven acres of land in Daboda village lasted for three days till Friday.
The godown has six rooms and one of them was used to store 8,343 kg of banned firecrackers. He said some other rooms had green crackers for which the warehouse owner Sanjay Kamra had a license.
Police station in-charge Jitendra Kumar said, “An FIR has been registered under the Explosive Substances Act and for violating government orders. We are investigating and action will be taken as per law.”
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