Bhilwara: A joint team of Chittorgarh police’s DST and Dungla police raided an illegal firecracker factory operating from a house in a field at Karsana village late Friday, arresting nine people and detaining two minors, police said. About 15 quintals of gunpowder, finished explosive firecrackers and manufacturing equipment were seized.Chittorgarh SP Dharmendra Singh said DST in-charge ASI Suraj Kumar received information from an informer on Oct 16, 2026 that gunpowder, sulphur and other firecracker-making material had been stored without a licence in a house on the road from Karsana to Gurjaniya in Dungla police station area. Firecrackers were allegedly being manufactured there.Acting on the information, the teams raided the house built in Himmatsingh Rajput’s field and found a large stockpile of gunpowder. The seizures included three plastic sacks of finished sutli bombs, nine sacks of finished tube explosives, 14 sacks and two cartons of gunpowder, 11 sacks of string used to make firecrackers, and 25 filled sacks of empty firecracker tubes.Police also seized 15 sacks of yellow powder, fuses, paste, plastic tubs, packaging wrappers, explosive tubes and other raw materials and equipment.Police said the accused had illegally stockpiled explosive material at the isolated field house and established the unlicensed manufacturing unit. The alleged mastermind and main accused was also named in the case, while all seized articles were taken into custody according to procedure.
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