Bolangir: Acting on a tip-off, a team of Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) jawans busted a Maoist camp during a combing operation at Gandhamardhan hills of Patnagarh in Bolangir district, Sunday.
Based on information from a reliable source, the raid team launched a combing operation in the hills and busted the Maoist camp. Several articles including some diaries, uniforms, naxalite literature, walkie-talkie, transistors, magazines and other items used by red rebels have been seized from the spot during the search operation.
Sources said all the articles were stuffed in a box and hidden inside a cave-like structure. Meanwhile, combing operations have been intensified in the area.
However, there was no trace of any Maoists near the place as the extremists suspectedly decamped before the arrival of the jawans.
This is for the second time in a month that the CRPF jawans have busted a Maoist camp in the state. A Maoist camp set up inside a forest near Pandripani village under Dharambandha police limits in the bordering areas of Odisha and Chhattisgarh was busted February 12,.
Earlier, the Special Operations Group (SOG) had busted a Maoist camp set up inside a forest on Odisha-Chhattisgarh border near Katphar village under Boden Police limits of Nuapada February 6.
The combing operation was on till the filing of this report.
PNN
