Raipur, Oct. 1 -- Two Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP)-rank officers are under the scanner after around Rs.20 lakh in cash recovered from two Maoist dumps during separate anti-Maoist operations in Chhattisgarh's Kanker district earlier this year allegedly went unaccounted for, police said.

An internal police inquiry and scrutiny of those associated with the operations were initiated, and the two DSP-rank officers associated with the cash recovery operations were transferred from Kanker in mid-June and subsequently posted in other districts.

The first dump was recovered in March from the forests of Tondemarka, while the second was found in the first week of April in the Marmakonari area of Murargaon. Around Rs.15 lakh was recovered ...