AGARTALA, May 9 (TIWN): Bomb Squad SI Babul Debnath and his team has inspected the spot at Gaurnagar where many grandees were recovered on Sunday evening.

Eventhough the grenades were claimed as 1971's and 40 years old but risks still exists.

However, after 48 hours of passage, the team arrived at Kailashahar to check the status and after the visit, reports will be submitted to the high authority, Kailashahar correspondent reported Agartala Office.

On the other hand Police Super Ajit Pratap Singh claimed that the grenades are still active, which created much tension among the locals there.

Presently the grenades have been covered on the same spot although locals demanded to move the grenades from the spot. Many more grenades may be recovered in future under the tillas (small hill).

It's worthy to mention here that Police recovered 127 grenades buried underground in northern Tripura, an official said on Monday.

Students, while playing near a central school at Gaurnagar late on Sunday, found the grenades. They informed their elders, who immediately alerted the police, the official added. 

Local villagers said that the grenades might have been buried during the Bangladesh Liberation War in 1971.

Historian Bikach Chowdhury said Tripura had six to seven camps in four sectors from where the Bangladeshi 'Mukti Joddhas' (freedom fighters) fought Pakistani forces after taking arms training in Tripura.

"Over 1,600,000 Bangladeshis – a number larger than the state's then total population of 1,500,000 – had taken shelter in Tripura alone," he said.

The nine-month-long "Mukti Juddho" (Liberation War) later turned into a full-scale India-Pakistan War, leading to the surrender of nearly 93,000 Pakistani soldiers in Dhaka on 16 December 1971.