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Security forces person recovered a cache of arms, explosives, and different Naxal-related materials during 2 abstracted operations on the Kanker-Narayanpur borderline successful Chhattisgarh's Kanker district, constabulary officials said connected Sunday (May 24, 2026).
The authorities had earlier announced the palmy eradication of decades-old Maoist insurgency successful Chhattisgarh.
The operations were jointly carried retired by unit of the District Reserve Guard (DRG), territory police, Border Security Force (BSF) and Bomb Disposal Squad (BDS) successful delicate forested and hilly areas, they said.
Police said the operations were conducted nether the supervision of Bastar Range Inspector General of Police Sundarraj P., BSF and territory constabulary officials of Kanker and Narayanpur districts.
On May 22, information unit launched a hunt cognition successful the wood country betwixt Pallahur and Japmarka villages, nether the Koilibeda constabulary presumption limits, on the Kanker-Narayanpur border.
During the search, the forces recovered a concealed Naxal dump containing a country-made BGL launcher, 25 BGL shells, 4 improvised occurrence cartridges, bare cartridges of AK-47 and SLR rifles, astir 5 kilograms of gunpowder, 10 jute-string bombs, 3 Naxalite uniforms, a star charger, wire, aesculapian kits and different daily-use materials, constabulary said, adding that unit of the 40th Battalion BSF and DRG participated successful the operation.
In different cognition conducted connected May 23 successful the Chhotebethiya constabulary presumption area, information forces carried retired searches successful the wood terrain betwixt the villages of Markabeda, Adnar, and Elur, situated on the Kanker-Narayanpur border.
The teams recovered 3 12-bore rifles, 1 BGL launcher, six BGL shells, 100 grams of gunpowder, 800 electrical detonators, and 200 non-electric detonators, constabulary said.
All recovered materials person been seized, and ineligible proceedings are being initiated, officials said.
Police said associated anti-Naxal operations are continuing successful the borderline regions of Kanker and Narayanpur districts arsenic portion of sustained efforts to curb Maoist activities and fortify information successful the area.
