Gadchiroli Police, in coordination with Narayanpur Police in Chhattisgarh, destroyed an alleged Maoist arms-manufacturing unit and recovered a cache of weapons and explosives during a joint operation near the Maharashtra-Chhattisgarh border, officials said on Thursday. Acting on intelligence inputs provided by surrendered Maoists, police teams launched a search operation in a dense forest area near Post Kakur in Chhattisgarh’s Narayanpur district, around 7 km from the Maharashtra border. The operation was carried out under ‘Operation Antim Prahar’. According to police, the recovered items included one INSAS rifle, two single-shot rifles, two 12-bore rifles, 18 live cartridges, 25 kg of explosive material, two Claymore mines, 110 detonators, cortex wire, bomb-making material, seven BGL launchers, three tube launchers, and iron rods. Police also recovered machinery allegedly used for manufacturing weapons, including two lathe machines, motors, a grinder machine, inverter, batteries, solar plates, and bundles of wire. Officials said all recovered arms manufacturing material was destroyed on the spot. Superintendent of Police, Gadchiroli, M Ramesh said Maoists had allegedly been using the remote forest terrain along the inter-state …