SAA event in Chhattisgarh, Gondpalli, Sukma District area, India on Tue 30th December 2025

Security Forces (SFs) recovered a cache of arms, ammunition and other Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist)-related materials from a forested hill near Gondpalli village in Sukma District in the Bastar division of Chhattisgarh on December 30, reports The Hindu. A joint team of 159th battalion of Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) and District Police out on an anti-Naxal operation from Urssangal camp recovered items include one bolt-action rifle, three muzzle-loading (bharmaar) guns, one 12-bore single-barrel rifle, 150 live rounds of 7.62 mm Self Loading Rifle (SLR), 150 rounds of 5.56 mm INSAS (Indian Small Arms System) assault rifle and 100 rounds of .303 rifle. The seized arms and ammunition were hidden in a forest by Naxalites to use them against SFs, a Police official said.