Administrator
18 October 2025
Even as the people were busy shopping on the occasion of Dhanteras festival,the security forces were involved in interrogating two Naxals who were identified as Albret Lomga alias Renga Lomga (19), and Vikas Lomga alias Rapa Lomga (20).
The duo had torched a mobile phone tower in Jaraikela police station area, and blown up a culvert in Rakhamati in the Chotanagra police station area in West Singhbhum district of Jharkhand.
Faraway from booming markets and shops, each packed with customers who were buying goods for the Diwali festival, the security forces were penning
the items that were recovered from them. These items were 22 batteries of 9 volts and a 200m wire, according to the police.
In another operation, a huge cache of arms and ammunition was recovered from a forest in the Jetiya police station area of the West Singhbhum district.
The arms, which belonged to Maoists, were kept hidden in the forest, police said.
When asked West Singhbhum Superintendent of Police Amit Renu said an INSAS rifle, 198 live cartridges of 5.56 mm bore, 112 cartridges of 7.62 mm bore, 134 cartridges of .303 bore, four INSAS magazines, two magazines of 7.62 mm SLR and two magazines of .303 rifle were recovered.
The operation was conducted jointly by the CRPF, CoBra, Jharkhand Jaguar and the district armed police.
