Amritsar, August 17 – Custom Department has seized some suspected unknown material during  rummaging of a truck carrying cargo from Afghanistan, where in a small metal box was noticed under the body of the truck.

In a statement issued here today by the Custom department said that the box was removed and kept at a secluded open place. As a precautionary measure, an explosive sniffer dog of the BSF was called in. However it didn’t give any indication. After that sniffer dogs of both BSF and Customs were called for narcotics, which also gave no clear indication.

It may be mentioned here that the similar box was detected a few days back and similar modus operandi was noticed, therefore the matter was consulted with BSF.

As a matter of abundant precaution it was decided not to open the tightly closed box manually and so bomb disposal squad of the BSF did a controlled action to open to box to open the box, said custom official.

After such opening, the residual material collected and it weighed approximately 350 grams.

It was again tested for NDPS with DDK kit, which did not give any conclusive results. Samples will be drawn by following due process and material will be sent to lab for further testing. Further, investigation is going on in the matter, official stated.