Under Operation Octopus being run against Maoists, security forces have got huge success. On the third day of Operation Octopus, Jharkhand Police and CRPF personnel demolished a Maoist bunker and recovered incriminating material, including a huge amount of explosives, in Budha Pahar on the Jharkhand-Chhattisgarh border. It is worth noting that the Jharkhand Police and CRPF team have been running a campaign against the CPI (Maoist) since September 4.
During the operation on Tuesday, the security forces recovered more than 106 different types of landmines, including cylinder bombs, pressure cooker bombs, Chinese grenades, can bombs and tiffin bombs, more than 350 bullets, 500 codex wire ammonium nitrate, hand pump cylinders. Other explosive materials including arrow bombs, semi-made barrel grenade launchers have been recovered. The joint team of Cobra, Jharkhand Jaguar, Latehar and Garhwa Police and CRPF is involved in the operation.
The security forces had received information that the top Naxal leaders often gather in Budha Pahar, located on the Jharkhand-Chhattisgarh border. It is considered a safe zone for Maoists. The Naxalite leaders plan subversive action from here. Police say that the Naxalites have caused heavy damage to the security forces and common people in this area many times. At present, the security forces have surrounded the old mountain from all sides and an intensive search operation is going on.
Police have informed that during the operation being run against the Maoists in the past, two Maoists were killed during a joint operation in Kuchai police station area bordering Seraikela and Chaibasa. State-of-the-art weapons and bullets were recovered from the slain Maoists. It was told that this action will continue in future also.