Express News Service By

A special team of Karnataka police conducted checks in houses of six suspects in the recent Bangalore bomb blast case and reportedly seized a few explosive materials on Monday.

However, Joint Commissioner of Police (Bangalore) C Murugan, who is heading the investigations, refused to officially confirm or comment on the seizures.

While the Coimbatore city police acknowledged having provided security for the searches conducted in the six houses located in Ukkdam and Karumbukkadai areas, the local officers claimed they have no knowledge about the reported seizures of the explosive materials.

The Bangalore police team had taken some of the accused to their houses during the check on Tuesday suggesting that the recoveries were made based on the statements of the accused.

Police sources suggested that a sizable quantity of an explosive material, suspected to be ammonium nitrate, was seized from one of the houses of suspects.

Unconfirmed reports also suggested that about a dozen of detonators were also seized during the searches conducted in the houses. A few books, CDs and a cell phone were also seized by the Bangalore police.

The Bangalore police had already arrested about six city residents in connection with the April 17 blast near a BJP office in the Bangalore city in which 17 persons were injured.

The police suspect that the Bangalore blasts were masterminded in Kerala and were carried out by a chain of persons based in Coimbatore.

A trail of the motorcycles and cell phones used in the blast had led to the arrests in the city, the Bangalore police had claimed.