A ioint team of State Police and CRPF ( 134 battalion) recovered two carbines and two rifles lying uncared in an incomplete house, said SP Palamu Indrajeet Mahatha, in presence of Commandant CRPF SK linda and second in command of 134 battalion Arvind Tripathy here on Monday.
Official sources said the house belonged to one Birjoo Baitha.
Explaining the use of QRT of CRPF, Mahatha said, “An intelligence input was received by a senior police officer. Police as usual got alert and cautious as intelligence like this coming at night has its own ingredient as on occasions intelligence fail the security forces and land them in thick soup. We went but with all care and caution.”
The joint team was led by ASP ( Op) Arun Kumar Singh. The entire operation and recovery lasted for one and a half hour on Monday night. There is no arrest in this case so far as the dump of weapon and ammunition was almost in an abandoned fashion.
In all two country-made carbines of 9 mm having bore of 0.22 and two country-made rifles of 0.315 bore along with 9 cartridges were found.
The combined team of police of Parwa police station Palamu and quick reaction team of 134 battalion of CRPF took this consignment of weaponry without any problem.
The joint team will investigate to ascertain the real owner of the weapons and why they did keep them out there.
Meanwhile, SP Palamu gave a clean chit to the owner of the house as he had nothing to do with this recovery of illicit arms and ammunition.
The police officer suspected that these weapons might belonged to some criminals gangs and they would find out the gang. He also did not rule out that these weapons going also to Maoists.