Chhattisgarh police recovered arms, ₹46 lakh cash in a Maoist dump

A Maoist dump comprising arms, ammunition and ₹46 lakh apart from other articles was recovered by the security forces in Chhattisgarh’s Gariaband on Saturday (February 28, 2026), said the police.

The dump was obtained in the forest/mountainous area of Sampasati in the village of Badegobra, under the Mainpur police station in Gariaband. It used to be a Maoist hideout which was identified based on the information provided by surrendered Maoists, said a senior police officer.

“After conducting a thorough search of the identified forest/hilly area, the police force succeeded in recovering cash amount of ₹46,31,500, a cache of arms and ammunition and a huge quantity of Naxalite material and literature from different places dumped by the Maoists in the hills,” the officer told The Hindu.

Among the weapons purportedly recovered were a muzzle loading gun, BGL shells, INSAS rounds and non-electronic detonators, the officer added.

A police statement added that the Gariaband district police, through thier Naxal eradication campaign and government’s rehabilitation scheme from the past two years has successfully eliminated and listed all Maoists of Dhamtari-Gariaband-Nuapada division active in the Gariaband-Dhamtari area to surrender by January 2026.

“Furthermore, the recovery of this Maoist dump has given the police another major success in thwarting possible Maoist incidents in the future,” the statement added.