The Uttar Pradesh government has said the powdery substance detected in the state Assembly has tested positive for explosive PETN in preliminary examination at the state forensic science laboratory here and no sample has been sent to FSL, Agra.
Principal Secretary (Home) Arvind Kumar added that the preliminary test conducted using explosive detection kit was positive for Pentaerythritol tetranitrate (PETN).
The UP ATS today conducted a mockdrill in the precincts of the UP Assembly to plug possible loopholes in security, days after explosive was found inside the building.
The suspicious powder was found when the officials from Anti-terrorist Squad (ATS) and National Investigation Agency (NIA) were searching the area.
“As informed by experts, 500 gm of PETN explosive is enough to blow up the House,” Yogi Adityanath said in the Assembly.
PETN explosive was found wrapped in a paper close to the seat of the Leader of the Opposition Ram Govind Choudhry.
New Delhi, Sep 7: A lethal cocktail of chemical pentaerythritol trinitrate or PETN used for heart ailments to smoothen blood flow and nitrate-based explosives was used by terrorists today to carry out the blast at
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