In a major haul, police seized seven quintals of gelatin rods from a vehicle in Nagarnar area of insurgency-hit Bastar district on Thursday.
Police have arrested two persons and interrogating with them to find any Maoist links in transportation of the consignment. The gelatin rods in packets were recovered from a vehicle during a routine search operation in Nagarnar area.
The gelatin rods were stored in barrels loaded in the vehicle along with other barrels containing diesel, said SDOP Abhishek Verma. He said that the driver Asgar Khan and cleaner Jagannath have been arrested and are being interrogated by the police. The driver on interrogation by police claimed that he works for the traders in Jagdalpur and was transporting the material according to their instructions.
The driver also confessed during interrogation that he had transported gelatin rods about 15 days ago from Odisha to Jagdalpur on instructions of the traders, police said. Police are investigating to explore any Maoist links in transportation of the explosives in such a huge quantities. Police will also interrogate the traders in this regard.