After weapons cache, another grenade found in Red Fort well

A grenade was recovered from a well in Red Fort on Thursday evening, almost three months after a large cache of weapons were found in the premises of the same historic monument.

Jatin Narwal, DCP (North), said the grenade was found in a well in the fort’s Sawan Bhado Garden by some sanitation workers during a cleanliness drive around 6pm on Thursday. “The Red Fort staff immediately alerted the police, after which a team from the NSG visited the spot,” said Narwal.

The sanitation drive in and around the well continued through the night into Friday morning, but was completed before the monument was opened for visitors. Underwater cameras were used to search for more possible weapons, but no more were found.

Police sources said the grenade appeared to be decades old, and its pin was missing. But unwilling to take any chances, the bomb disposal squads took it to an undisclosed location with the help of an unmanned robotic vehicle covered with ‘bomb blanket’ to avert an accidental blast.

Earlier in February this year, a large cache of explosives and ammunition was recovered from Red Fort. The recovery had compelled the authorities to shut down the monument for a day.

The online registration process for admission to undergraduate courses at Ambedkar University (AUD) began on Friday. The registration process will continue till June 23.

There are 445 seats in around seven undergraduate courses on offer at Ambedkar University. The first cutoff list will be out on July 5, a few weeks after Delhi University’s cutoffs are announced. Admissions will be done between July 6 and 8.

Ambedkar University is a state university and hence 85% seats are for applicants from Delhi and 15% are for students from other states.

Students can only fill online application forms and there will be no offline forms.

The Kashmere Gate campus offers seven undergraduate courses, such as Economics, History, English, Mathematics, Psychology, Social Sciences & Humanities and Sociology. Each undergraduate course has 35 seats, officials said.

Ambedkar University launched its second campus at Karampura last year with 200 students on its roll. This campus has four undergraduate courses, such as Economics, Psychology