Prayagraj (UP) : The Uttar Pradesh Police have found minor students to be allegedly involved in at least six incidents of bomb hurling in the city. Low intensity bombs were hurled outside a prestigious school in the past few days. According to police, the students learnt bomb-making from online videos and social media platforms. They not only hurled crude bombs outside three prominent convent schools' gates to prove their group's supremacy, but also uploaded videos of the act on the social media.
According to the police, the WhatsApp groups and gangs of these students have names like Tandav, Jaguar, Tiger, Immortal and Rangbaz."The bombs were hurled to establish supremacy, or to win the ongoing turf war among the school students," a police official said. Three days ago, the city police, with the help of CCTV footage, nabbed 11 students -- 10 of them minors -- for their involvement in the crime. They have been booked under appropriate sections of the IPC and the Explosives Act. Two motorcycles, 10 mobile phones and two crude bombs were also seized from their possession. While one minor was sent to jail, the rest were sent to juvenile homes.
Inspector General of Police (Prayagraj range), Rakesh Singh, said, "After forming groups on popular social media apps, these students from three different convent schools of the city were in a race for proving their supremacy in their areas. Hurling bombs at the gate of a rival school was their way of doing so. "For making crude bombs, they would buy fire-crackers, take out the explosive material and mix it with glasses, bricks etc. to make crude bombs.