India
oi-Madhuri Adnal
New Delhi, Dec 18: Nearly a week after a low-intensity explosion rocked the Rohini district court, Delhi Police Special Cell has arrested a DRDO scientist for allegedly planting an improvised explosive device (IED) in a tiffin box with an intention to kill his neighbour. The low-intensity explosion took place inside courtroom no. 102 on December 9 and injured one person. Court proceedings were stopped following the incident.
According to Delhi Police Commissioner Rakesh Asthana, Kataria, who is a senior scientist at the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO), entered the court premises at 9.33 am on the day of the incident with two bags and left one of those behind inside courtroom number 102.
The accused left the court premises at 10.35 am. Kataria had planted the IED in a tiffin box and left the bag containing the tiffin box inside the courtroom as he wanted…