Sunday, March 9, 2008

busted a Maoists' bunker and seized a huge cache

Gaya (PTI): Police on Sunday busted a Maoists' bunker and seized a huge cache of arms in Akurauni forest in this district of Bihar
Acting on information given by naxalite leader Chandu Das who was arrested from Jhallar village in the district in the wee hours today, a joint raiding team comprising CRPF and Special Task Force (STF) raided the forest area and discovered the bunker being manned by activists of the ultra outfit CPI (Maoist), Superintendent of Police Amit Jain said.
The team found a big water container inside the bunker and seized a huge arms' cache consisting of 10,000 rounds of ammunition of several regular weapons, including Insas rifles, besides 100 magazines of carbines and Insas and more than 100 handgrenades, Jain informed.
He said hundreds of police uniforms, handgrenade-making equipments, one nine mm pistol and regular rifle were also seized.
Without disclosing the identity of the person who was manning the bunker, the SP said he was being interrogated.
Raids were intensified in the adjoining areas and the district's entry and exit points sealed to arrest the naxalites and recover other weapons in the vicinity of the forest area, he said.

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