Overview

• The Sukma District Force and the CRPF’s 203rd CoBRA battalion carried out the raid on September 26 based on specific intelligence.
• Teams launched from the Mettaguda camp and located the manufacturing site on a forested hill near Koimenta village.
• Recovered items included a vertical milling machine, two barrel grenade launchers, 94 BGL heads, three directional IED pipes, and four solar batteries.
• Superintendent of Police Kiran Chavan said the seizure indicates preparations for a large-scale offensive and described the outcome as a foiled plot.
• Officials described a semi-industrial setup with precision tools that signals evolving Maoist capability, and they reported 249 Maoists killed in Chhattisgarh this year, including 220 in Bastar.