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Furniture trader Devendrasinh Jadeja,who was arrested for allegedly assembling a pressure cooker bomb,was remanded in police custody for four days by a local court in Rajkot on Friday.
Jadeja (29) was arrested by Detection of Crime Branch (DCB) of city police on Thursday after he admitted that his story of terrorists having planted a pressure cooker bomb was conjured up and that he had assembled the low-intensity device to win goodwill of police.
The man wanted sympathy of police to threaten Koli community of his village after they had a tussle a few months ago,police said.
The DCB produced him before a magistrate and secured his remand till Tuesday.
Meanwhile,police said that Jadeja had used the explosive powder in the bomb. He had bought two pressure cookers from a mall in the city. He took one of them and used the second to assemble the bomb. He filled the cooker with firecrackers and powder used to make fireworks. He also bought nut-bolts,crews and iron nails from a hardware store and put in the device as splinters, a DCB sleuth investigating the case said on Friday.
The officer said that man,who is a graduate and lone son of his parents,had surfed the Internet to learn to assemble the device.
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