A huge haul of arms were recovered by security forces from a forested patch in Mainpur block of Gariaband district bordering Odisha.
The weapons belong to Maoist Military Dalam, a senior police official said.
Inspector General of Police (IGP) (Raipur Range) GP Singh while addressing a Press conference informed that a team consisting of men from 211th battalion CRPF, 65th battalion CRPF, District Force (DF) and a team of police personnel from Odisha had jointly executed the operation based on specific inputs from intelligence agencies.
Police had received inputs that a huge cache of arms is buried in the jungle near Nagrar village in the district. Accordingly, the police carried out a search operation and succeeded in locating the arms which were buried beside a river.
Police informed that the seized arms include rifles, muzzle guns, country-made guns, detonators, walky-talky, 12 bore gun bullets, tiffin bombs, medicine box, Naxal literature and other items of daily use.
The IGP said that Naxals are trying to intensify their activities in Gariaband, Mahasamund and Dhamtari districts, however, seizure of arms has dealt a strong blow to their plans.
The information about any arms dump in a Naxal organization rests with Commander level cadres, he told reporters and said that Naxal movement in Odisha-Gariaband border has almost come to an end.