Two cops sounded alarm, but MP failed to take action on carbide guns

Bhopal/Gwalior: Could Madhya Pradesh's carbide gun-triggered tragedy have been avoided if early action of two alert cops in Gwalior and Bhopal were taken seriously and replicated across the state? On Oct 18 - days before Diwali - a cop in Gwalior, alarmed by the open sale of carbide guns, had on his own lodged an FIR. Similar action was taken by a cop in Bhopal the same day. This was well before the "dark Diwali" tragedy that left nearly 300 people, including children, with eye injuries across the state. In Gwalior's Inderganj, head constable Ramnaresh Gurjar filed the FIR after spotting a man standing outside his shop with a pipe-shaped weapon-like object and a white plastic packet. On checking, police found six handmade 'sutli' bombs, 12 paper-wrapped wicks, and a 2.5-foot iron pipe d