UNI
  
Mumbai, Jan 11: A crude bomb, found by a taxi driver in the dicky of his vehicle at Hindustan Mill compound at Agripada, Mumbai, around noon on Wednesday, was defused by the Bomb Detection and Disposal Squad (BDDS).

Incidentally, the place where the bomb was noticed is very close to the area from where three suspected Lashkar-e-Toiba terrorists were arested by the Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) on January 7.

Deputy commissioner of police Santosh Rastogi told UNI that the crude bomb containing two-three grams of explosive, glasses, nails and some other metals was defused by the BDDS at Girgaon Chowpatty later in the afternoon.

Rastogi said taxi driver Amerdev Sharma (50), as usual, had parked his cab near Shirin Cinema in south central Mumbai. This morning, when he took it for repairs to the garage and opened the dicky, he found a 'ball' like object.

Sharma immediately lifted the object and placed in the open space of the mill compound and alerted the police personnel from the office of assistant commissioner of police.

The articles used have been sent for chemical analysis.