Jhargram (West Bengal), April 21 (ANI): In a joint operation, personnel of state police and para-military forces unearthed and seized considerable amount of arms and ammunition including mines and country made pistols from the jungles of Paschim Medinipur district of West Bengal.
This was disclosed to the mediapersons yesterday.
A police official, Dilip Manik said," All the arms recovered are not old; some seems to be new. However, some were buried under the soil for quite a considerable time."
This region of Jhargram in the district from where the arms were seized was Binpur Block that was a hotbed for Maoist activities over the past couple of years.
Among the recovered arms and other lethal items were two landmines, four kilograms of tiffin mines, three challenger mines and 15 bore rifles, one pistol and some bullets.
No sooner than the landmines were detected, the bomb disposal squad (BDS) of the state police was summoned and it nipped the bud, whatever the Maoists had intended, by diffusing the lethal materials.
In the past couple of years, the Maoists have stepped up their efforts against the government as well as the locals, after the people complained that Maoist activities such as killings and abductions increased considerably in the area.
Maoists have significantly increased their presence in tribal and rural regions in the states ofChhattisgarh, Bihar, Jharkhand, West Bengal and Odisha as well as parts of Maharashtraand Andhra Pradesh.
The Maoists say they are fighting for the rights of millions of landless labourers and marginal farmers.
The Maoists have killed police and politicians, and targeted government buildings and railway tracks in an insurgency that has killed thousands since the 1960s. (ANI)
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