LAGATAR24 NETWORK
Daltonganj July 14: Burha Pahar continues to remain in the news despite having been liberated from the clutches of Maoists in 2022.
Security forces continue to lay hands on the dumps of the Maoists at long but periodic intervals.
The Maoists’ dumps are old but their unearthing by the security forces sends out a demoralising impact on the Maoists who are either shrinking in numbers or are finding it too difficult to make any new foray into the jungles.
On Thursday contingents of the Garhwa police and 172 Bn CRPF unearthed a small cache of some deadly devices along with daily use items of the CPI Maoists at Tumera under the Bhandarya police station in Garhwa district.
The joint team recovered one 2.5 kg improvised explosive device (IED), 67 detonators, three Motorola wireless sets, two digital electric meters, seven steel containers etc.
No dump of the Maoists can be without nails and hammers and here at Tumera, security forces gathered 25 nails and two hammers.
Nails in the booby traps act as deadly missiles. The recovery of six bell switches and 14 bed switches from the Tumera dump is quite important. Scissors are another indispensable in every dump of the Maoists. Here too at Tumera.
Garhwa SP Anjani Kumar Jha said, “We had a precise tip-off about this dump and our security forces made a flawless unearthing of it.”
Anjani said, “We still remember those days before the liberation of Burha Pahar when the Maoists had laid a huge number of booby traps all along the stretch and our every footfall then was like a risk of going up in the sky but our officers and brave boys risked their lives and got Maoists thrown out of the Burha Pahar with their invincible rendezvous till it fell all crumbling down to our team of the police and the CRPF.”
On being asked that bushes and grasses may further act as a cover-up for the dumps to which Anjani said, “A precise tip-off makes things easier. Such issues with bushes and grasses do not matter much.”
