Officers of the raiding team said the explosive substances, including eight gelignite sticks, six detonators, fuse wires of 30 metres, and three kg of ammonium nitrate, were seized from a secluded plot near T.I.M. Training College.
The raids were carried out by a team of police personnel led by Vadakara Deputy Superintendent of Police Jossy Cherian from 7 a.m. on Friday.
This was following an instruction from Additional Director General of Police (North Zone) N. Shanker Reddy, who had earlier visited the region that is known for communal and political clashes.
The explosive substances were concealed in a plastic bag and kept inside a compound, the police said.
The raids were conducted in the wake of an intelligence input that explosives were being stockpiled at Nadapuram and adjoining areas. Some fundamentalist outfits could be attempting to foment trouble as the area had been free of any major disturbances in recent times, except for an instance of rioting by two groups of students affiliated to different political parties during a school election.
Quarrying is done a few kilometres from the area where the explosives were found. Investigators are puzzled about the explosives being abandoned at an uninhabited spot. Explosives substances mostly reach the hands of anti-social elements for making pipe and steel bombs, the police said.
The explosive substances were shifted to the Nadapuram police station. A case was registered in connection with the incident.
Raids would continue in the coming days as well, they said.
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