A huge cache of arms mostly barrels used in manufacturing guns was recovered from forests of Chhattisgarh's insurgency-hit Rajnandgaon district, police said today.
Acting-on a tip off, as many as 39 barrels of 12 bore guns were recovered from Mangikholi forests under Bortalav police station area last evening by a joint team of security forces, Rajnandgaon Superintendent of Police Sundarraj P told PTI.
Tagging the recovery as a "major" success, the SP said, police have foiled naxals' evil strategy to manufacture guns to harm security personnel.
During interrogation, a recently arrested woman naxal Manisha had revealed about the location of a dump of materials for making guns hidden in the forests of Kandhurra based on which search operations were on in the jungles of Kandhurra for the past few days, he said.
A joint team of Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) and district force was cordoning off forests of Mangikholi last evening when they spotted barrels hidden behind shrubs, the SP added.
