Overview
- Security teams unearthed a concealed cache in Rayagada’s Raghubari reserve forest during a focused combing operation on Thursday that was cleared by the bomb disposal squad before recoveries began.
- Officers recovered another major dump in Koraput’s Tentuliguma area on Friday after acting on intelligence from surrendered Maoist cadres, marking the second large find in the district in about two weeks.
- Recovered items across both operations included a .303 rifle and sten parts, multiple country-made firearms, 11 tiffin‑bomb IEDs, detonators, cordex wire, gunpowder and rounds of .303, 9mm and .38 ammunition.
- Police preliminarily attribute the Koraput cache to the Andhra‑Odisha Border Special Zonal Committee and the Rayagada find to the Banshadhara‑Ghumusar‑Nagabali Division of the CPI (Maoist) and say interrogations guided the targeted searches.
- Joint DVF, SOG, CRPF, BSF and local police teams say combing and area‑domination operations will continue while investigations trace procurement and funding channels to stop the reuse of hidden stockpiles.