Varanasi: Jaunpur police seized 5 quintals of illegal firecrackers and arrested a man during a crackdown on Friday.Under the supervision of SP City Anant Chandrashekhar, a Kotwali police team recovered the firecrackers from a residential house in Mohalla Bazaar Bhua, under Kotwali police station limits. The accused was identified as Aisan Raza. A case was registered against him at Kotwali police station under Sections 5 and 9(b)(1) of the Explosives Act, 1885.Further legal action is underway.
