Ranchi: Jharkhand Police recovered a consignment of communication equipment meant for Maoists on Tuesday.
The consignment was sent as cargo from New Delhi on a state-run domestic flight.
The recovered equipment included walkie-talkies, a number of radio sets, micro tape recorders and signal receivers, among others.
Police officials said two persons involved in the operation were arrested, one from Palamu in Jharkhand and the other from New Delhi.
"All these three people reached there (cargo office of domestic carrier in Ranchi) to receive the consignment. All three of them were unaware of what was in it. These three reached there to receive the consignment on behalf of Naresh Sharma. We reached there and recovered all this. On knowing that all this had been brought by Naresh Sharma, we arrested him at Palamu," said Praveen Kumar, Senior Superintendent of Police, Ranchi.
At least 36 policemen were ambushed by Maoists in neighbouring Chhattisgarh state on Sunday.
The Maoists have recently stepped up attacks against police, officials and civilians away from remote rural areas and closer to towns and cities across India -- a worry to potential investors, as the country grapples with the global slowdown.
Hundreds of Maoists, who are expanding their influence in India, had declared the town of Lalgarh about 170 km (100 miles) from Kolkata, as a "liberated zone" recently before they fled in face of police action.
Maoists, who say they are fighting for the rights of poor farmers and landless labourers, are expanding their influence in east, central and southern India.
Thousands have been killed in the insurgency which began in the late 1960s and which Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has described as a grave threat to India's internal security.
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