Maoist Arms Production Factory Busted in Central India
Dated 12/1/2007
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An Intelligence Bureau team is being rushed to Madhya Pradesh after police on Thursday unearthed an illegal arms factory here which was allegedly making ammunition for Maoists.
Chhattisgarh, Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh and Jharkhand police are also sending experts from their anti-Maoist cells and are expected to reach here by Friday night.
On Thursday, the police acting on specific intelligence had identified the factory which was operating in Bhopal's Satnami Nagar area and recovered a huge consignment of arms including hand grenades, rocket launchers, pistols, revolvers and one carbine.
Rs 12 lakh in cash and six boxes of Naxalite literature were also recovered. Most of the literature was in Telegu, Hindi and Bengali.
"We received information on Wednesday that an illegal arms factory was running in Bhopal and was supplying arms to Maoists," ADGP (Intelligence) S K Raut said.
"We raided three places and recovered a huge consignment of arms accessories or parts of sophisticated arms which were being manufactured here. The consignment is so large that we have not been able to draw a list of it yet.
After preliminary investigations we know that the arms were being sent to Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra and Karnataka." The police, however, explained that final assembling of the arms were taking place elsewhere.
Police said that for over two years, a group of men and a woman hailing from a southern state were allegedly manufacturing the ammunition in a three roomed shed in Satnami Nagar. The cops also apprehended six suspected Maoists and three other persons on Thursday.
