5-kg IED Recovered And Destroyed In Chhattisgarh’s Sukma, ‘Planted To Harm Security Forces’

The incident came a day after 12 Naxalites were arrested from Sukma and Bijapur districts in Chhattisgarh. Nine of them had a bounty of Rs 11 lakh on their heads.

Security forces in Chhattisgarh’s Sukma district have recovered and destroyed a 5-kg improvised explosive device (IED), ANI reported Tuesday.

The report quoted Chhattisgarh Police as saying that the bomb was found on Muller-Badesatti Road, and that it was “planted by Naxalites to harm the security forces”.

The incident came a day after 12 Naxalites were arrested from Sukma and Bijapur districts in Chhattisgarh. Nine of them had a bounty of Rs 11 lakh on their heads.

The three Naxalites, including a woman, held in Bijapur were found to possess a tiffin bomb, a detonator, a battery, a detonating cord and other items. The trio, identified as Sukku Kunjam, Pakli Oyam and Deepika Awalam alias Reena, were apprehended from the forest of Korcholi by the District Reserve Guard, local police, and the 85th battalion of the CRPF, Bijapur Superintendent of Police Jitendra Kumar Yadav said. 

On April 6, three Naxalites were killed during an encounter with security forces in Chhattisgarh’s Bijapur. The operation was led by Telangana’s Greyhounds and Chhattisgarh Police in the Karriguta forests of Pujari Kanker on the Telangana-Chhattisgarh border. A light machine gun (LMG) and an AK-47 were among the weapons recovered during the operation. 

On April 3, security personnel in Bijapur carried out a major anti-Naxal operation, in which 13 insurgents were killed. Police said another Naxalite was gunned down on April 5 in Dantewada.