Narayanpur's Additional Superintendent of Police O P Sharma told PTI that the IED was unearthed when the Central Reserve Police Force's (CRPF) 139th battalion was on an anti-Maoist operation on the Narayanpur-Antagarh road under Narayanpur police station limits.
On reaching Bharanda village, around 350 km away from Chhattisgarh's state capital Raipur, CRPF personnel spotted a wire after which they unearthed the IED packed in a steel container, placed three feet beneath the earth, the police official said.
Later, a bomb disposal squad neutralised the IED, the police official said.