A sacked contractual
employee of the postal department was arrested in Madhya Pradesh’s Sagar on
Friday for allegedly trying to kill a senior official by sending a parcel bomb.
The parcel contained an FM radio and exploded when postal superintendent K K
Dixit’s son Ritesh, a medical practitioner, plugged it in on Thursday morning.
Dixit, who was on the
third floor of his residence, was unhurt but Ritesh was critically injured. Two
others, Dixit’s relative and a servant, also sustained injuries.
The sender’s address on
the parcel was fake, but police accessed footage of CCTVs installed in the
Mandi postal office from where the parcel was booked and nearby buildings to
zero in on two suspects.
Rajesh Patel, 23, and
Moolchand Luhar alias Babloo,33, both residents of Motinagar, told the police
that they had been given money by one Hemant alias Ashish Sahu for sending the
parcel to Dixit’s home, said police. Sahu, who worked at the Rampur branch of
post office was sacked for alleged embezzlement in 2017. Dixit had also lodged
a police complaint against him.
Sagar SP Satyendra
Shukla told The Indian Express that when the police took Sahu
into custody, he admitted to sending the parcel bomb with an intention to kill
Dixit. He claimed he was wrongly accused of misappropriation and wanted to take
revenge against Dixit.
According to
police, Sahu, a graduate, said he learnt the technique to make a bomb
through Google search
engine and bought nearly 6-kg explosives and detonators from a local shop. The
device would have exploded only after it was plugged in.
The police recovered
from his home transistor parts he had removed to accommodate the explosives.
IG (Sagar) S K Saxena
said Sahu had told him that his monthly salary was around Rs 8,500. The IG said
he has asked for a detailed investigation in the embezzlement case too.
The parcel had been
sent to Dixit’s office on January 23. Since he was not in office, assistant
superintendent C B Namdeo accepted the parcel and sent it to Dixit’s home
through driver Biharilal Gaud on January 24. The police said Patel and Luhar
were probably not aware of what the parcel contained.
Dixit
told police the parcel contained a blue FM transistor radio. He said he did not
switch the radio on and left for official work in Bandakpur. On Thursday,
around 9.30 am, he was in the third floor while Ritesh was in the second. The
moment Ritesh plugged in the device it exploded causing injuries to him, his
uncle Vijay and servant Devsingh.
Surce: Indian Express .
Surce: Indian Express .
