Gariaband, Security forces have recovered arms, ammunition, explosives and equipment used in making weapons stored by Naxalites from six locations in the hilly areas of Chhattisgarh’s Gariaband district, police said on Saturday.
Chhattisgarh: Arms, weapon making equipment recovered from Naxal hideout in GariabandeAfter a 36-hour search operation that ended on Saturday, Maoist dumps were found in Valudigi and Metal Hill ranges under Mynpur police station area adjoining Odisha, a police official said.
Acting on information provided by Maoists who surrendered earlier this month that the top leadership of the Odisha State Committee of the banned CPI had stockpiled automatic weapons and equipment at various locations in the hills along the Chhattisgarh-Odisha border, a special E-30 unit of the district police force launched an operation on Friday.
The seized items included two Insus rifles, one .303 rifle, one country-made pistol, one ‘Surka’, two 12 bore guns, two single shot weapons, 127 live rounds, eight magazines, 22 BGL shells, a bundle, a bundle of electrical cables and various technical tools used in our machine shop. Officer Dr.
The arms workshop was being run under the supervision of three CPI central committee members who were killed in separate encounters last year, he said.
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Maoists’ technical team has developed improvised explosive devices and country-made weapons as well as repaired automatic firearms, the official added.
The seizure was made in the wake of the anti-Naxalite ‘Operation Virat’ by the Gariaband police for the last one and a half years.
During the operation, all known Naxalites active in Maoist’s Dhamtari-Gariaband-Nuapada division either surrendered or were forced to become inactive before January 26, the police official said.
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The recovery of the arms dump has “reduced to almost zero” the possibility of a recurrence of Maoist violence in the region, he claimed.
Since January 2025, security forces have recovered 28 graded automatic weapons and 29 other firearms from Maoists in the district besides 240 electric detonators, 17 non-electric detonators, seven IEDs and about 100 meters of cordex wire.
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