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A Maoist dump comprising arms, ammunition and ₹46 lakh isolated from different articles was recovered by the information forces successful Chhattisgarh’s Gariaband connected Saturday (February 28, 2026), said the police.
The dump was obtained successful the forest/mountainous country of Sampasati successful the colony of Badegobra, nether the Mainpur constabulary presumption successful Gariaband. It utilized to beryllium a Maoist hideout which was identified based connected the accusation provided by surrendered Maoists, said a elder constabulary officer.
“After conducting a thorough hunt of the identified forest/hilly area, the constabulary unit succeeded successful recovering currency magnitude of ₹46,31,500, a cache of arms and ammunition and a immense quantity of Naxalite worldly and lit from antithetic places dumped by the Maoists successful the hills,” the serviceman told The Hindu.
Among the weapons purportedly recovered were a muzzle loading gun, BGL shells, INSAS rounds and non-electronic detonators, the serviceman added.
A constabulary connection added that the Gariaband territory police, done thier Naxal eradication run and government’s rehabilitation strategy from the past 2 years has successfully eliminated and listed each Maoists of Dhamtari-Gariaband-Nuapada part progressive successful the Gariaband-Dhamtari country to surrender by January 2026.
“Furthermore, the betterment of this Maoist dump has fixed the constabulary different large occurrence successful thwarting imaginable Maoist incidents successful the future,” the connection added.
