In a major anti-Naxal operation, a joint team of CRPF and district police seized a major of cache of arms and ammunitions along with daily use items from Maoist insurgents after a brief gun battle in the dense jungles of Jaradni and Bodapal police said on Saturday.
Superintendent of Police (SP) Gariabandh, Ramgopal Garg informed that a team of CRPF and District police was conducting anti-moist operation in the naxal infested areas under the Bindranawagarh police station.
The police party was in the jungles of Jaradni and Bodapla when suddenly a group of Maoists believed to be members of the banned Maoist outfit Communist Party of India (Maoist) opened fire on the police party.
The alert security forces returned fire and the gun battle lasted for about half-an-hour. The guerrillas then disappeared in the jungles. later, during searching , police found, 12 bore gun, live ammunition, bullets of AK-47, electrical detonators, tiffin bomb, 8mm bullet shells, battery, electric wires, switches, radios, Naxal dress, water jerkin, medicines and other daily used items.
Police said that members of Amamora local Areas squad (lOS) of the naxals were involved in the incident. A case has been registered against them with Bindranawagarh.
The SP further claimed that due to pressure created by security forces in the district, maoists are not able to make permanent hideouts in Gariabandh and live in temporary camps.
The SP further that operation commander of Nuapada (Odisha) Kailash, Praveen, Saket and Anjum along with 20 to 25 arms guerrillas were involved in the incident.