Hyderabad, Oct 10 (IANS) Hyderabad police on Friday seized illegally-stored firecrackers worth Rs 18 lakh and arrested a person in this connection.

Acting on a tip-off, sleuths of the Commissioner’s Task Force, East Zone team, along with the Afzalgunj police, raided a warehouse in Siddamber Bazar and apprehended a person who had illegally stored firecrackers in the residential premises and seized firecrackers of different brands worth Rs 18 lakh.

According to Additional Deputy Commissioner of Police, Ande Srinivasa Rao, the arrested man was businessman Shyam Kumar Sugandhi, who was illegally storing the firecrackers without having any valid license from the authorities concerned and knowing that storing of firecrackers in a residential area may cause severe damage to human lives and prop

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