Wednesday | Apr 16 2025 | 11:46:51 AM
New Delhi, April 10
The National Investigation Agency (NIA), working in close coordination with the state police and the CRPF recovered two IEDs hidden by CPI (Maoist) cadres in a forest area in Bihar’s Gaya district.
NIA had received intelligence about concealment of two Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) by the banned CPI (Maoist) terrorist organisation in the Bhusiya forest area in Lutuwa area of Gaya. The anti-terror agency sent a team to the area after analysing the information, officials said
The officials added that the team coordinated with a Special Task Force (STF) of the state and the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) to plan out a meticulous and safe operation to locate the IEDs in the difficult forest terrain. The combing operation led to the seizure of the two IEDs, weighing about 3 kg each and concealed under land between two rocks of Kari Pahadi.
The IEDs were successfully blasted, as per standard procedure, by the BDDS team of CRPF at the same location. A case has been registered at the local police station under the Explosive Substance Act and UA(P) Act.
