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Police seized a massive amount of explosives in Kozhikode railway station on Friday (26 February) morning. The police were able to recover 117 gelatin sticks and 350 detonators from the Chennai-Mangaluru Superfast Express.
At present, a woman has been arrested in connection with the incident. The Railway Police Force is probing the matter further.
The police are investigating all angles and is also looking into whether the explosives were being taken for works in quarries or for terror operations. But the most important aspect of the probe is to trace the origin of the explosives.
Recently, the Popular Front of India (PFI), an Islamic organisation, had held a march, wherein some people dressed in RSS uniform were bound with chains on their hands. The PFI also held an unauthorised rally in Mayiladuthurai and Kayalpatnam in Tamil Nadu. Over 5,000 members of PFI came out in a rally in Dakshina Kannada in Karnataka to showcase ‘Muslim strength’.
Nandu Krishnan, Mukhya Shikshak of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) was brutally murdered, allegedly by members of the Social Democratic Party of India (SDPI). The SDPI is the political wing of Popular Front of India (PFI).
Assembly elections are scheduled in Kerala in the coming weeks. It is expected that such crimes will increase the stress on an already strained security apparatus.
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