The Bokaro police have recovered huge quantity of explosives from the Chargi forest of Peterwar block on Monday during area domination drive of the forest areas of Gomia-Peterwar border. Superintendent of Police Jitendra Kumar Singh said that the explosives were found hidden in the forest area and it seems that the Naxal ultras have kept it for creating panic and disturbing the coming election to be held on December 9.
Addition Superintendent of police Rajendra Toppo and DSP Manoj Kumar Rai informed that the joint team of police and CRPF recovered 4 cane bombs, detonators and wires from the forest.
The expert team on Monday defusing the bombs in presence of SP Jitendra Kumar Singh told that they have got information that the left ultras are planning to disturb the election and preparations are going on to have blasts at many places to create panic. This seizure has been made after getting concrete information by our sources. Police also confirmed that all four the seized bombs have been successfully defused on Monday.
He said that the area domination drive is going on to sanitise the entire area before the election. Besides the local Peterwar police teams, the Jawans of CRPF are also taking part in this drive.
The team which recovered the cache of ammunition from the Naxal affected area of Peterwar block, which is near to Tenughat, was led by Bermo additional SP Rajendra Toppo, DSP, Bermo Manoj Kumar Rai, officer in charge TN Jha, VK Ram, Pradeep Kumar Sahi, and ASI, Gopal Sharma were the member of the team.