CPI Maoists arms and explosive mines in Serendag look shattered as on Friday May 27 latehar district armed police and contingent of 11 battalion of CRPF in a joint search recovered huge consignment of the Maoists with the same old but now badly-exposed technique of burying them in a 500 litre capacity water tank.
According to DIG police Palamu Saket Kumar Singh the Friday search led to the recovery of 577 pipe bombs 335 gelatin bombs 263 hand grenades 183 cartridges 3 ammunition chargers.
DIG Saket could not hide his glee when he told the Pioneer on Friday ‘ latehar police and 11 battalion of CRPF are just digging and digging causing heavy dent to the Maoists. ‘ He said this is nearly a month and such retrieval of Maoists goods all deadly and banned are coming in at regular interval.
SP latehar Anoop Birtharey said the recovery of 263 hand grenades suggest the Maoists capability and technical know how of manufacturing the hand grenades. Quoting Birtharey DIG said the Maoists have been making hand grenades but such is their restriction imposed by the security forces that they are just keeping these hand grenades in hiding and down the earth.
The latehar SP has all the feathers which he and his team has hot plucked from the Maoists as in the just 21 days the latehar district police and 11 battalion of CRPF had recovered 200 IEDs 59 IEds in just a series 700 cartridges of AK 47 out of the total of 3,200 ( excluding Friday’s recovery of 183 cartridges) and other utility items of the Maoists like table fan blanket uniform back pouch and big of all naxal literatures.
DIG said “ locals of Serendag have done a marvelous job. They sometimes ask our boys not to venture out if they smell any rat. These villagers just go round the roads and tracks to find out if something foul has been camouflaged there and when assured that there is no death trap for the Maoists then the villagers ask the security forces to roll out from the forward security post both at Taal in Palamu and Serendag in latehar.