Gariaband, February 28 Security forces on Saturday recovered over Rs 46 lakh in cash, a laptop, weapons and ammunition from Maoist hideouts in a forested area of Chhattisgarh's Gariaband district, an official said.
The recovery was made from Sanpsati, a forested and hilly region, near the village of Badegobra, under the jurisdiction of the Mainpur police station, based on information provided by surrendered Naxalites, the police official said.
They had provided information about Maoist items hidden by senior members of the outlawed Dhamtari-Gariaband-Nuapada (DGN) division, he said.
"Based on these inputs, identified locations were mapped, and a joint team from the district police force's E-30 unit from Gariaband and the District Reserve Guard (DRG) from neighbouring Dhamtari district was dispatched from here," the official said.
During an intensive search of the marked forest and hill terrain, security personnel recovered Rs 46,31,500 in cash from various concealed sites in the hills, he said.
The seized firearms and ammunition included one muzzle-loading gun, 33 muzzle-loading rounds, one country-made rifle, 32 BGL (Barrel Grenade Launcher) shells, 10 rounds of INSAS rifle, 11 rounds of Self Loading Rifle, 45 rounds of AK-47 rifle, 41 rounds of .303 rifle, 23 rounds of single-shot rifle, and 26 rounds of 12-bore gun, the official informed.
"We also recovered one laptop, two mobile phones, 13 electronic and 10 non-electronic detonators, along with a large quantity of Maoist materials and literature," he said.
As a result of the sustained anti-Naxal operations carried out by the Gariaband police over the past two years, along with awareness drives about the state government's rehabilitation policy, the entire cadre of the Dhamtari-Gariaband-Nuapada (DGN) division active in the region until January this year has either been neutralized or has surrendered, the official asserted.
