Daijiworld Media Network – West Singhbhum

West Singhbhum, Oct 11: A CRPF inspector and a jawan were injured on Friday after two improvised explosive devices (IEDs) exploded in the Saranda forest in West Singhbhum district, Jharkhand, officials said.

The IEDs are suspected to have been planted by the proscribed CPI (Maoist), which is observing a ‘resistance week’ across the state to target security forces.

DIG (Kolhan) Anuranjan Kispota told reporters that the blasts occurred in the Babudih area under Jaraikela police station limits. The injured inspector was shifted to a hospital in Rourkela, Odisha, while the jawan was being taken to a nearby medical facility.

In response to the CPI (Maoist) activities, Jharkhand Police has strengthened security statewide, ahead of the outfit’s call for a bandh on October 15. Inspector General (Operations) Michael Raj said that 12 CRPF battalions and 20 groups of Jharkhand Armed Police and India Reserve Battalion have been deployed to bolster security.