Maoist arms-manufacturing facility busted in Chhattisgarh

Security forces have destroyed a weapons manufacturing facility operated by Maoists in Chhattisgarh’s Sukma district and seized eight rifles and a large cache of materials used in making firearms and explosives, police said on Monday.

Based on intelligence inputs, a joint team of the 150th battalion of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) and local police busted the illegal weapons-manufacturing unit in the forest hills near Meenagatta village on Sunday, Sukma Superintendent of Police Kiran Chavan said.