New Delhi: Delhi police have arrested one person allegedly with four kilograms of explosives in his possession, a senior police official said today (Feb 14, 2004).

Ved Prakash, hailing from Kathua in Jammu and Kashmir, was nabbed in Mukarba Chowk area of North West Delhi last evening (Feb 13, 2004), Additional Commissioner of Police Karnal Singh said.

Prakash was nabbed while he was on his way to handover the consignment to his contacts as per instructions of some Pakistan-based militants, Singh said.

Deputy Commissioner of Police (Special Cell) Ashok Chand said that Prakash was supposed to deliver the consignment to Pakistan-based Arms smuggler Hanif alias Chaudhary.

The accused had recently delivered drugs and fake currency notes to Hanif, he said.

On the nature of explosives recovered from Prakash, Singh said it is plastic-based high-explosive PETN (Pentaerythrite Tetranitrate).

Singh said the accused had been involved in trafficking of Arms and explosives for over a decade. Prakash was arrested under TADA (Terrorist and Disrupted Activities Act) in Jammu and Kashmir in 1989 after 40 kgs of explosives and four AK-47 rifles were recovered from him. In 1998 he was arrested under the Public Safety Act in J and K for the same offence, the official said.