Raipur, Feb. 3 -- An AK-47 rifle recovered in Chhattisgarh's Narayanpur district in May 2025, following the killing of CPI (Maoist) general secretary Basava Raju, has been traced to a Maoist attack carried out 15 years earlier in south Chhattisgarh, Chhattisgarh police said.

According to police, the weapon was looted during the April 2010 Tadmetla attack in the Chintagufa area of Sukma district, which was then part of Dantewada. Its recovery is among caches of hundreds of weapons reclaimed last year, some of which were in Maoist possession for more than a decade.

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