The Delhi Police today found an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) inside a bag in Delhi's old Seemapuri. The bag was recovered from an abandoned house where bomb squad and fire brigade teams were rushed after the Delhi Police Special Cell zeroed in on it during an investigation.
The owner of the apartment is a contractor named Qasim whose father had recently passed away. He had rented the apartment to three-four young men who have now fled. The tenants are presumably suspects in the case.
The Delhi Police Special Cell had intercepted several dozen suspicious phone calls that led them to the spot.
The police were probing a case from last month when an abandoned bag with a 3 Kg bomb full of powerful chemicals like RDX was found at a busy flower market in east Delhi's Ghazipur. The police had suspected it was a terror attempt ahead of the January 26 Republic Day celebrations and said that it was aimed at "causing maximum damage".
On January 14, a controlled explosion was carried out by the police to defuse the bomb planted at the Ghazipur market which usually draws huge crowds.
