ISLAMABAD, Feb 15: The city police have decided to take opinion of its legal department for registering a case of the suicide jacket recovery.

An official of the police told Dawn that they had already recorded the recovery in their daily diary.

According to the diary, the police found two bags carrying ready-to-wear black suicide jackets, a black shirt and a jeans, gloves and a fake plastic pistol.

The recovered items were taken over by the Bomb Disposal Squad for examination and preparing a report for further legal action.

The official said after receiving the report the police would send it to the legal department seeking their opinion as under which sections the case should be lodged.

He said a case under the explosive act and the anti-terrorist act could be lodged against unidentified culprit(s). “Officially, no explosives were found in the jacket or bags,” he added.

The jacket was ready to wear with complete circuits connected with wires and detonator. Some plastic pipes were also attached to the jacket for filling in explosives.

The sources said the police had recovered three bags. One of them had three jackets, the second was filled with explosives and the third contained a shirt and jeans along with a pistol, magazines and other material which are attached with explosives to create more damage.

Earlier on Thursday, the capital was put on high alert and police placed concrete blocks as barriers at various points after an intelligence report that three suicide attackers had been dispatched to Islamabad and Rawalpindi to target government and foreign installations.

The police on Saturday night called vendors of the Sunday Bazaar at G-11 to the spot with the help of a list provided to them by Capital Development Authority.

Later, the police combed the area besides searching goods kept in the stalls.

The police asked the vendors not to open the bazaar on Sunday for security reasons. The residents of the area faced lots of difficulties in purchasing grocery and other items.

The sources said it was yet to be ascertained for whom the jackets, explosives and the pistol were arranged and which spot was the target.