Police recovered arms, ammunition and other items following an encounter with left wing extremists in the insurgency-infested Chhuikhadan region of Rajnandgaon district, police said here on Thursday.
“We had received intelligence inputs about the movement of Maoists in the area bordering Maharashtra. Accordingly, an anti-insurgency operation was launched from Chhuikhadan police station,” Station House Officer (SHO) Chhuikhadan Inspector Santram Soni informed.
According to the SHO, the operation was launched on Tuesday and the police force while covering Devarcha, Chatrela Kukripat villages was searching a forested hilly
terrain between Budhanbhata and Kukripat villages on Thursday.
Around 1.30 pm, the police party confronted Maoists in the forested patch and both sides engaged in gun battle. The intermittent firing from both sides lasted for about half-an-hour after which Naxals disappeared in the jungle, SHO Soni said.
While searching the spot, police found 315 bore rifle, 12 bore bullets, solar plates, 12
bolt battery, radio, camera flash, wireless chargers, wire, bag packs, multi-meter and other items of daily use, he said.