A huge number of barrels used in manufacturing of guns was recovered from forests of Chhattisgarh's insurgency-hit Rajnandgaon district, police said on Friday.
Acting-on a tip off, as many as 39 barrels of 12 bore guns were recovered from Mangikholi forests under Bortalav police station area last evening by a joint team of security forces, according to Rajnandgaon Superintendent of Police (SP) Sundarraj P.
During interrogation, a recently arrested woman Maoist named Manisha had revealed about the location of a dump of materials for making guns hidden in the forests of Kandhurra based on which search operations were on in the jungles of Kandhurrafor the past few days, hesaid.
A joint team of Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) and District Force was cordoning off forests of Mangikholi last evening when they spotted the barrels hidden behind shrubs, he said.