Naxalites’ plan to create havoc foiled, cache of explosives kept in bunker seized
Ranchi: The big plan of Naxalites to create havoc during the by-election to be held on September 5 in Dumri assembly seat of Giridih district of Jharkhand was foiled by the police and security forces. During a special search operation conducted on Thursday, a cache of explosives hidden in a bunker was recovered in Parvatpur area of Khukhra police station area of the district.
A CRPF official said that many explosive materials including high explosive, codex wire, gelatin, detonators kept in large quantities in drums and cartoons under the ground have been recovered.
It is believed that the explosives were kept with the intention of causing harm to the police, security forces and polling parties during the elections. During the ongoing checking campaign in view of the by-election, a static surveillance team on Thursday recovered one lakh forty thousand rupees in cash from a vehicle at Jarua turn under Chandrapura block of the assembly constituency. The driver could not present any document regarding this, hence the amount has been confiscated.
Let us tell you that Maoist Naxalites have had influence in the entire area of Dumri assembly constituency for decades and they often try to create an atmosphere of panic through violent incidents during every election. Even during the Panchayat elections held in the month of May last year, Naxalites had tried to disrupt the election process. Even at that time, the police and security forces had conspired to blow up the security forces by planting a pressure bomb below a culvert between Tengra Khurd and Tengra Kala village in the foothills of Parasnath mountain, but the police had detected it in time and The pressure bombs were defused.
The Intelligence Department has already given a report regarding the possibility of Naxalites disrupting the electoral process during the by-elections. In view of this, a joint anti-Naxal operation of security forces and police is going on in the area for the last several days. Regarding this, a meeting was held two days ago at Madhuban Guest House with senior police officers including CRPF IG, Jharkhand Armed Police IG.
