Four Maoists held in Chhattisgarh's Bijapur; explosives seized

February 26, 2024 20:20

Four Maoists were arrested in Bijapur in Chhattisgarh on Monday and explosives were seized from them, a senior police official said.

Sudru Madvi, Ram Bedja, Budhram Tati and Sukhram Kalmu, who were held from a market in Kattur village in the district's Kutru area, have confessed they planned to plant an IED to target security forces, Bijapur superintendent of police Jitendra Kumar Yadav said.

"They were arrested by a team of the District Reserve Guard and the local police on an anti-Maoist patrol in Ranibodli, Kutru, Mukram and Tadmer areas. We seized a tiffin bomb, a pencil cell packet, detonating cord, safety fuse, electric wire, firecrackers etc from them," the SP informed. -- PTI

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