Object that sparked bomb scare at Bengaluru’s KSR Railway Station was Army simulator

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"The simulator is used in training and is not an explosive,” a Railways Superintendent confirmed on Monday through a press conference.

Soumya Chatterjee

Three days after the bomb scare at the Krantiveera Sangolli Rayanna (KSR) Railway Station in Bengaluru, police said that the object looking like a hand grenade belongs to the Indian Army and was a simulator. This was established by the Forensic Science Laboratory of the Government Railway Police (GRP).  It was widely reported on Friday how the bomb squad was called in after people noticed the object and part of the station premises was cordoned off. Train movements in two stations were restricted for two hours. TNM on Friday itself had reported that the suspicious object which triggered the alarm was a dummy and not an explosive. The same was confirmed by police on Monday evening through a press conference. "The simulator is used in training and is not an explosive. A box of grenade simulators was being transported to other parts of the country. The grenade could have fallen off during the journey. We have contacted army officials, seeking their report on the incident. They have accepted that it was their grenade simulator. We have to contact the person who was carrying the simulators in the railway station and will add his name in the FIR for negligence," Bheemashankar S Guled, Superintendent of Railways, Bengaluru told reporters. The simulator is a standard tool for the army’s training module in different parts of the country. Police also said that the dummy was produced in one of the Army’s workshops in the city and a consignment of these was being transported to Jhansi. Read: After bomb scare at Bengaluru’s KSR Railway Station, train movements restored While the SP refused to divulge further details, sources confirmed that there was a lapse in transporting the consignment.  “The GRP had sent one personnel to visit all army units in the city with the object. And one after the other unit said that they have no knowledge about it. It was one unit near Trinity Circle which accepted that this object was produced by them. They also told us that a consignment of these were sent to the Commanding Officer in Jhansi,” a top source told TNM.  “One Army personnel who was tasked with transporting has reportedly left work without notice. This led to the consignment first reaching Delhi on the Karnataka Express. Now the Railways sent it back to Chennai as there was no train to Bengaluru at that point of time. From Chennai, the boxes came to Bengaluru on Friday itself at 5.30am on Lalbagh Express,” the source added. Exact details on how one such object fell out of the box are awaited.      

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