New Delhi, Oct. 19 -- Three people, including two women, have been apprehended for allegedly supplying illegal firecrackers in northeast Delhi, with police recovering 98 kg of firecrackers and a car used to transport them, an official said on Monday.
The accused were intercepted by a police team in the Nand Nagri area on October 17 after a tip-off about a consignment of illegal firecrackers being brought in a car, he said.
The team was checking vehicles around 8.40 pm when a secret informer alerted them to the arrival of the
consignment.
Acting on the information, the police intercepted a white car carrying two women and a man.
Police seized firecrackers from a car and arrested three people, who allegedly procured the consignment from Gurugram for local supply. An FIR has been registered.
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