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From ANI
Jahanabad (Bihar), Jan 11: Police arrested six Maoists and seized huge cache of arms and ammunition from them in Bihar's Jahanabad District.
Acting on a tip off, the police raided a residential building in Makhdoompur Mathiya village and arrested the Maoists and recovered the ammunition.
The police said that it recovered two country-made carbines and other ammunition.
"Along with them, we have seized two country-made carbine, a country made pistol and 28 rounds of ammunition including that of SLR, .2 mm and 315 bore," said Mannu Mahajan, Jahanabad district's superintendent of police.
One of the arrested Maoists said that the arms were kept at his aunt's house.
"I had come to visit my maternal aunt's house. I did not bring any arms and ammunition with me. They were kept there at my aunt's house. There is oneistol," said Uday Yadav, the arrested Maosist.
The Maoists are highly active across a wide swathe of India, including Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Uttarakhand and West Bengal. They are also active in some areas of Orissa, Maharashtra and Karnataka.
Maoist rebels say they are fighting for the rights of poor farmers and landless labourers and regularly attack government property and policemen.
Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh had earlier described the four-decade-old Maoist rebellion, which has killed thousands, as the single biggest threat to India's internal security.
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