IED event in Bihar, Aurungabad area, India on Thu 13th October 2022

The Police and the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) during an ongoing operation against Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) busted an Improvised Explosives Device (IED) making unit situated in a cave on Ladduiya Pahar Hill in Chhakarbandha Forests under Madanpur Police Station limits in Aurangabad District of Bihar on October 13, reports Hindustan Times. The Security Forces (SFs) seized over 1,000 pieces of high-grade detonators, a Self-Loading Rifle (SLR) said to be looted from armed forces, a regular rifle, huge number of ammunitions, pressure IEDs along with a generator set, gas cylinder, welding machine, cutters, iron pipes and other equipment used in making IEDs, said Superintendent of Police (SP), Kantesh Kumar Mishra. SFs also seized a steel chest weighing 80 kilograms from the cave. The Maoist fled away with the cash and valuables kept in it. It is the second time that the Police have seized a steel chest from Maoist hideout. Earlier, on September 23, the SFs seized INR 2 million cash of Maoist ‘levy’ collection from a chest buried under earth in the same forests, Police said. The Maoists went on back foot in the region after the arrest of central committee member and the chairman of all-India in-charge of the Sub-Committee of Mass Organisation (SUCOMO) Vijay Kumar Arya alias Jaspal Ji alias Amar (61) from Rohtas on April 13 and murder of Sandeep Yadav alias Vikas, the in-charge of Bihar-Jharkhand Special Area Committee (BJSAC) who was heading the central zone of the outfit, on May 25 in Gaya Forests. They had hidden their arms, ammunition and cash in caves and other inapproachable places and went underground to be saved from the intensive search operations launched by the Police and paramilitaries in the area. SFs got important leads after September 23 arrest of ‘regional commander’ Vinay Yadav alias Guru Ji alias Kamal Ji from Aurangabad Forests, who was leading the organisation in the region after the arrest of Vijay Kumar Arya and Sandeep Yadav. He provided important information about the outfit’s resources, hideouts and facilitators during interrogation, leading the SFs to seize INR 2 million cash, Police said.