Alert Kolar police on April 8 seized a car laden with huge amounts of explosives being transported into the city from neighbouring Andhra Pradesh .
The police have put up check posts at strategic locations, especially in the border areas, ahead of elections. They intercepted a car during random check and recovered a huge quantity of explosives headed from Karnataka-Andhra border at Nangali check post at Mulbagal taluk in Kolar district .
While one of the accused was caught, his associate managed to escape . The arrested has been identified as Asif Hazrath Ali. As many as 1200 gellatin sticks, seven boxes of wire, six detonators were seized.
