A huge cache of arms and ammunition was seized by the security forces during an anti-Naxal operation carried out in a forested patch of insurgency-hit Kanker district, police said here on Saturday.
The stockpile of arms was seized from a dense forest terrain near village Padbeda under Tadoki police station limits, Superintendent of Police Kanker RN Dash said.
According to police, a joint police party consisting of Border Security Force (BSF) and District Force (DF) personnel was undertaking area domination exercise in Tadoki police station limits.
It was then that they got specific information about arms and ammunition hidden in the jungle. Accordingly troopers reached the spot and confiscated the cache.
The seized arms and ammunition include a .32 mm pistol with live rounds, country made guns with live rounds, muzzle gun (11 pieces), detonators, live SlR rounds, 5.56mm INSAS rounds, gelatine tube and liquid, iron pieces (18 kg), explosives, batteries, flash lights, wires, medicines, crackers and items of daily use. A case in this connection has been registered with Tadoki police station limits.
Notably the rebels in Bastar region are observing Peoples’ liberation Guerrilla Army (PlGA) week.
During the PlGA week that would end on December 8, the left wing extremist spike up their activities and target security forces.