Police confirmed that five packets of raw material used in the preparation of explosives were seized from Prakash Air Freight at Indiranagar.

Around 6.30 pm, the police control room received an anonymous call saying there was a bomb in one of the consignments at a courier company located in Indiranagar. Immediately, police, along with its bomb squad, swung into action.

After a four-hour search, police found some suspicious packets kept separately in the hall at the ground floor of the two-storeyed office of the courier company. On checking, police found some pebble like substance and powder wrapped in some packets. This detection made the suspicion stronger that there could be some explosive materials.

On opening the packets, police found gun powder, pebbles, some nails and metallic pieces inside. Though they were not bombs, the discovery of explosive materials worried the police. The materials would now be sent to the Forensic Sciences Laboratory (FSL).

“The material could have been used for making crude bombs. The recovery of explosive materials in a packet is a matter of concern,” said a police officer.

The courier company is in the processs of shifting its office from Indira Nagar to Thippasandra. Currently, only four employees are looking after the receipt of delivery section.

Along with the waste material these five packets were found. “We don’t know how the packets landed in our office. We were forced to keep it aside as the packets did not carry the name of the consignee/consignor. Policemen seized it but till date we don’t know what was there inside,” said Suresh Raja, the Zonal Manager of the Mumbai-based Prakash Air Freight Private Limited.

Raja said he had no idea from where and how the consignment reached the office. He denied that his employees had any role in it, and believed that it could be an act of mischievous elements.
Police are also trying to find out the caller.