Bokaro police and the 26th battalion of CRPF jointly frustrated Naxalites on Monday night by foiling their plan to recapture Gomia and its surrounding areas. The CRPF and Bokaro police recovered a huge amount of explosives from artificial bunker used by Maoists to stock their explosives near Narki bridge under the IEl police station, said YS Ramesh,Bokaro Superintendent of Police
Police recovered 188 pieces of gelatin sticks and other explosives article used in planning landmines and Naxal literatures during the operation, said SP YS Ramesh, adding that this was the first artificial bunker unearthed by the Bokaro police and CRPF forces used by Maoists to stock their explosives near bridge .
The SP further said the police and CRPF, acting on a tip–off, laid trap under the leadership of ASP (Abhiyan) Sanjay Kumar and Assistant commandant of 26th battalion Sanjay Chaudhary at Gomia raided the area to recover the explosives.
The commandant of 26thCRPF battalion Akhilesh Kumar Singh said the rebels were still hopeful of retaining Jhumra and Gomia, once their safest training ground, where CRPF has established its camp. Singh conceded that the Maoists still had command in several villages adjacent to Jhumra hills and they had smuggled the cartridges to attack the security forces.
SDPO, Bermo Rajkumar Mehta said that the explosives were planted at a place near the Gomia-Visunugrah road connecting the NH-2 and the intention of the extremists was to blow up the Narki bridge.