Overview
- The Todma recovery, which occurred on Sunday, July 12, removed an underground dump that contained an INSAS rifle, dozens of magazines and rounds, multiple guns, hundreds of improvised explosives and detonators.
- Officials said the cache also held a 116-gram gold biscuit and Rs 2 lakh in cash, with the total seized items assessed at about Rs 18 lakh.
- Dantewada and Bastar range leaders, including IG Badri Narayan Meena and Dantewada SP Gaurav Rai, supervised the operation that security forces said was carried out on the basis of precise inputs from militants who recently surrendered.
- Police reported a separate dump found near the Kanker–Narayanpur border during patrols that yielded weapons and electronic equipment, underscoring that buried stockpiles remain a security concern.
- The recoveries build on months of similar finds after surrenders and follow a March 31 declaration that Bastar was free of armed Maoist activity, a claim officials say the latest seizures reinforce while also warning more caches may still exist.