SAA event in Chhattisgarh, Sukma District area, India on Mon 22nd December 2025

Security Forces destroyed a weapons manufacturing facility operated by Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) in Sukma District in the Bastar division of Chhattisgarh on December 22, and seized eight rifles and a large cache of materials used in making firearms and explosives, reports The Hindu. “Based on intelligence inputs, a joint team of the 150th battalion of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) and local police busted the illegal weapons-manufacturing unit in the forest hills near Meenagatta village on Sunday (December 22, 2025),” Sukma Superintendent of Police (SP) Kiran Chavan said. He said that the team recovered eight single-shot rifles, 15 12-bore cartridges, five electric detonators, 30 metres of Cordex wire, 2 kilograms of PEK explosive, 1 kilograms of ANFO (ammonium nitrate fuel oil) explosive, 10 kilograms of ammonium nitrate, eight wireless VHF sets, one welding machine, among other materials, Maoist uniforms and literature.