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A week after some 150 gm of mysterious white powder was found inside the Uttar Pradesh Assembly, which Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath claimed was be an explosive called pentaerythritol tetranitrate (PETN), senior officials at the Agra forensic laboratory told Times of India that the substance has no traces of PETN.
According to the report, the test results has been sent to Lucknow and National Investigation Agency (NIA).
Principal Secretary of UP Home Department, in a statement said that, “no sample has been sent to FSL Agra as they do not have the machines/wherewithal to conduct the requisite tests.”
The TOI report had further quoted sources as saying that a four-member committee headed by deputy director AK Mittal, examined the samples sent from Lucknow.
An official told TOI:
The sources also TOI that a sample of a second substance, found on 15 July, is also being checked by the lab though police officials have said it was magnesium sulphate “used in cosmetics or medicines, such as for people with arthritis”.
(With inputs from ANI.)
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