India, Sept. 28 -- Over 3,580 kilogram of illegal firecrackers were recovered by police from a house in Vishal Enclave, Rajouri Garden, on Saturday and arrested a couple and their son for storing them in every part of their home, officers said.

The accused were identified as Sushil Kakkar, 53; his wife, Upasana Kakkar, 50; and their son, Shivam Kakkar, 28. Police said they were caught while repacking the firecrackers into smaller consignments for supply. Investigators said the family procured consignments from Meerut and Ghaziabad in Uttar Pradesh and Gurugram in Haryana for high-profit sale in Delhi during the festival season, despite the Supreme Court's continuing ban on the storage and sale of polluting firecrackers in Delhi-NCR.

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