Three Maoists were Saturday arrested and a 10 kg tiffin bomb was recovered from their possession in Chhattisgarh's Kondgaon district, police said.
The cadres were apprehended from the forest between Ranapal and Nawagaon villages under Mardapal police station limits when a joint team of security forces was out on duty to ensure security to the road construction work, according to Kondagaon Additional Superintendent of Police (ASP) Maheshwar Nag. The construction of road is underway between Ranapal and Bayanar in Mardapal area, he said. The composite squad, involving 41st battalion of the ITBP and local police, was carrying out patrolling to provide security to the construction works, when it spotted three ultras hiding in the forest between Ranapal and Nawagaon, following which they were apprehended, he said.
A 10-kg tiffin bomb, one bundle wire, one dry battery, Maoist literatures and a Naxal banner in the name of East Bastar Division of the outlawed CPI (Maoist) were recovered from their possession, Nag said.