A truck carrying 23 tonnes of ammonium nitrate was hijacked from the Daru-Petarwar valley in Ramgarh district of Jharkhand on Sunday morning. Until Monday evening, there was no word on the truck.
The consignment of ammonium nitrate, meant for manufacture of explosives at the Indian Explosives Ltd (IEL) at Gomia in Bokaro district, was dispatched from the IEL godown in Raipur in Chhattisgarh on November 27.
The truck was being driven by Mohammed Ansari who had Minhas Ansari as his khalasi. It was on its way to Bokaro when a Bolero jeep intercepted it in the Daru-Petarwar valley, according to an FIR filed at the Gola police station.
“Five armed men got off the Bolero. They held the Ansaris at gunpoint and one of them drove away with the truck. The others got into the Bolero with the Ansaris and followed the truck. The Ansaris were freed later,” Ramgarh SP Amol Homkar told The Indian Express.
The FIR was registered on the basis of a complaint filed by the Ansaris.
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