NEW DELHI, July 29 (Xinhua) -- Indian security agents have arrested 12 persons for allegedly selling radioactive material in the western state of Rajasthan, said local media Friday.
The suspects were picked up Thursday by the Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) who said they were trying to cheat people with millions of rupees on the pretext of selling them "radioactive material" in Rajasthan's Dausa district, said Press Trust of India.
"Acting on a tip-off, a team of ATS arrested 12 persons, including two locals, in a raid conducted at a house yesterday in Lavaan village... A glass box with three partitions containing the suspected radioactive material was seized from their possession and will be tested at Nuclear Power Corporation," the report quoted an official as saying.
The accused were "in connivances with some scientists from Delhi" and "used to dupe people," said the official in Jaipur, state capital of Rajasthan which had a site for testing nuclear bombs by India.
