Berhampur: Acting on a tip-off, police recovered 10 country-made guns from two locations in the forest areas of Kandhamal district on Sunday. This brings the total number of seized arms to 12 in the last three days.
Recovery Details
While seven country-made firearms were seized from the Ladargaon forest area under Tumudibandha police station limits, three were recovered from the Partamaha jungle in Daringbadi, said Shubham Bhosale, Baliguda subdivisional police officer (SDPO), on Monday. No arrests have been made in connection with the recovery.
Possible Motives
Police suspect that miscreants may have concealed the firearms in the jungle for illegal hunting and other unlawful activities. "We have initiated legal actions and are trying to identify the people involved," said the SDPO. He added that patrolling has been intensified in the forest areas following the shooting death of a 33-year-old man by two miscreants in a forest under Belaghar police station limits on Friday.
Previous Incident
Three armed individuals had gone to the forest for hunting, but two of them killed Kamdeb Majhi of Takala over a previous enmity. The accused, identified as Litu Majhi (20) and Madhusudan Majhi (35) of Saperu village, were arrested with two country-made guns on Sunday, police said.
