Police recovered two tiffin-bombs weighing 10 kg each in the insurgency-hit Kanker district on Wednesday. Kanker is scheduled to go to the polls on Thursday (April 17) along with Rajnandgaon and Mahasamund. Police said the bombs could have inflicted heavy casualties on the security forces.
The tiffin-bombs were found at two locations on Mandagaon-Mendra Road under Badgaon police station limits.A joint squad of the 127th battalion of the Border Security Force and the local police, which was on a de-mining exercise to ensure security ahead of the polls in the region, detected the bombs. After the recovery of the bombs, the bomb disposal squad was called in, which defused the explosives, police maintained.
Meanwhile, in a combing operation carried out in Narayanpur district, two hardcore Naxals, carrying cash reward on their arrest, were held in the Maoist-infested district on Tuesday.
According to police, the arrested ultras were identified as Rajman Salaam (35) and Vinod Korram (26). They were caught by the joint team of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) and the district force from a forested patch falling under Jhara police station limits. The duo was arrested near Kausalnar village by security officials during area domination exercise.Police had declared cash reward of `75000 each on their arrest. The arrested red-rebels were involved in serious crimes like arson and murder, police claimed.