Koraput/ Jeypore: Koraput Police has seized a huge cache of explosives as it busted a Maoist hideout during a combing operation at Gumudaput jungle under Machhkund police limits in Koraput district, police said Thursday.
The combing operation was being carried out in the jungle comprising the jawans of a joint team of district police, District Voluntary Force (DVF) and Special Operations Group (SOG) personnel. The seized explosives concealed by the Red rebels include 15 guns, 17 tiffin bombs (eight tiffin bombs weighing around 7 kg and nine more weighing 3 kg), two detonators, codex wires of 50 metre length, one steel box, two empty tiffin boxes and other explosives.
Police suspect that the explosives may have been stored there by the members of AOBSZC and were intended to be used against innocent civilians and security forces to carry out their subversive, anti-national activities and to establish Maoist presence again in this area.
This was stated here by Koraput SP Abhinav Sonkar in a press release issued in Koraput, Thursday.
The combing operation was undertaken after intelligence inputs alerted about Maoist movement in Gumudaput and Kodaput jungles bordering Malkangiri district and neighbouring Andhra Pradesh under Machhkund police limits.
The team carried out an intensive search in the bordering jungle and busted the major Maoist dump in Gumudaput forest near Machhkund village. This led to the recovery and seizure of a huge cache of ammunition and other Maoist articles, the press release mentioned.
Meanwhile, further combing and search operations are underway in this area, a senior police official said.
PNN
