Naxal-run arms manufacturing units busted at Bhopal and Rourkela

New Delhi, May 15 (UNI) Two weapons and ammunition manufacturing units run by Naxalite elements were busted in January at Bhopal in Madhya Pradesh and at Rourkela in Orissa, the Lok Sabha was informed today.

Minister of State for Home Affairs S Regupathy in a written reply said the State and Union Territories Governments are asked from time to time to make sustained and continued efforts to check and bust illegal arms and ammunition.

He said available inputs suggests that illegal arms and ammunition manufacturing units exists is some States, where manufacturing through clandestine cottage level household units takes place.

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