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Maoists abduct 4 cops in Bastar
Four special police officers and five villagers were abducted by Maoists while they were travelling in a jeep from Bijapur to Gangaloor in Bastar region of Chhattisgarh.
RAIPUR: Four special police officers (SPOs) and five villagers were abducted by Maoists on Wednesday evening while they were travelling in a jeep from Bijapur to Gangaloor in Bastar region of Chhattisgarh.
IGP, Bastar, R K Vij told TOI, "Additional forces have been rushed to the area to rescue kidnapped persons."
He said about a dozen Maoists were involved in the incident.
"The Maoists stopped the jeep by felling a tree on the road. The SPOs and villagers were taken into nearby jungles," Vij said.
The Raipur police, meanwhile, recovered 23 high-frequency wireless sets, four bundles of fuse wires and five wireless chargers near Chingri nullah at Bhatagaon village, IGP, Raipur, Y K S Thakur said. "The police received the information from an anonymous caller that a sack was lying abandoned near the nullah," he said.
"Immediately a bomb disposal squad and sniffer dogs were sent to the spot. After confirming that no explosive was in the gunny bag, it was opened. We found the sets and other things and also Maoist literature," Thakur said.
He said police have increased surveillance on people with suspected links with Maoists after the recent arrest of Maoists — Malti, Meena Choudhary, Prafull Jha, Asit Kumar Sengupta and Siddhartha Sharma. They were arrested after the seizure of 100 pistols, 26 weireless sets from Dangania locality of Raipur on January 22.
IGP, Bastar, R K Vij told TOI, "Additional forces have been rushed to the area to rescue kidnapped persons."
He said about a dozen Maoists were involved in the incident.
The Raipur police, meanwhile, recovered 23 high-frequency wireless sets, four bundles of fuse wires and five wireless chargers near Chingri nullah at Bhatagaon village, IGP, Raipur, Y K S Thakur said. "The police received the information from an anonymous caller that a sack was lying abandoned near the nullah," he said.
"Immediately a bomb disposal squad and sniffer dogs were sent to the spot. After confirming that no explosive was in the gunny bag, it was opened. We found the sets and other things and also Maoist literature," Thakur said.
He said police have increased surveillance on people with suspected links with Maoists after the recent arrest of Maoists — Malti, Meena Choudhary, Prafull Jha, Asit Kumar Sengupta and Siddhartha Sharma. They were arrested after the seizure of 100 pistols, 26 weireless sets from Dangania locality of Raipur on January 22.
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