A total of 990 illegally procured gelatin sticks packed in two sacks were seized in Jharkhand's Pakur district, police said on Tuesday.
Acting on a tip-off, a police team launched a search operation under Malpahadi police outpost area, leading to the seizure, Superintendent of Police, Rajeev Ranjan Singh told reporters.
"Two men who were transporting the sacks on a motorcycle dumped the explosives and fled the spot on seeing the policemen," he said.
A preliminary probe has found that the gelatin sticks were illegally procured by local stone crusher units beyond their allocation of explosives, Singh added.
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