A huge haul of explosives, including 1,838 gelatin sticks and 150 kg of ammonium nitrate, suspected to be meant for delivery to Naxals during their ongoing ‘martyrs week’, was on Friday seized from Chhattisgarh’s insurgency-hit Bastar district.
Two persons were also arrested with the cache, police said. The recovery was made from the forests near the Nagarnar police station area on Chhattisgarh-Odisha border, Inspector-General of Police, Bastar Range, S.R.P. Kalluri told PTI.
Acting on a tip-off about the presence of two suspects with a consignment near the Dhanpunji railway crossing, located around 400 km away from here in the Nagarnar area, security forces were rushed to the spot on Thursday evening, he said.
During the search, two separate bags, filled with 1,250 pieces of electronic detonators, were found from their possession following which the two were arrested, the IG said.
The duo have been identified as Niranjan Das and Durjati Mahangkodo, natives of Koraput district in Odisha.-PTI
