The Dumka police on Monday said they have averted a major naxal attack with the seizure of a huge cache of arms and ammunition in different forest areas of district of Dumka.
Superintendent of Police, Dumka, YS Ramesh said that 90 cartridges of .303, 45 pieces of 5.56 mm cartridges, wire codex 6 metres, 3 pc of cane bombs of 5 kg each, 100 pc detonators, booster 6 pc, 2 pc steel drums, 9 green uniforms, one cap, 2 pc pithhus, 4 pc steel plates, and five pc vessels code were seized during a joint operation by the SSB and local police within limits of Kathhikund and Gopikandar police stations early morning on Monday.
He said the security forces conducted the operation after receiving inputs from police intelligence and this recovery has averted a major naxals strike planned in the different parts of Dumka during coming Assembly elections.Police sources said the arms and ammunition were wrapped in a polythene bag and dumped in an isolated area in a village for later use. Acting on the intelligence inputs ,the additional superintendent of police Ratish Chandra Mishra, Officer in-Charge Gopikandar, SSB Dy commandant Lalit Shah, Narpat Singh and district police personnel have jointly busted a Communist party of India (Maoist) hideout in Jharkhand's Dumka district on Monday.
Sources said that police unearthed a huge cache of arms and ammunition reportedly dumped near Sarkhi hill by the CPI (Maoist) Vijay Daa alias Nandlal Manjhi. Dumka is known to be a hotbed for Naxal activity in Jharkhand and lies in the Red-corridor. It is located in the southern part of the Jharkhand plateau and is one among dozens worst Naxalite Maoist extremism affected the district.