Chaibasa (Jharkhand): Police on Monday said security forces recovered a large cache of arms and ammunition from a forest during an anti-Naxal operation in West Singhbhum district.

SP Ashutosh Shekhar said that based on a tip-off, security personnel seized weapons from a forest area in Regardahatu and Tumbahaka villages on Sunday.

He said the recovered items included rifles, revolvers, mortars and live cartridges.

Shekhar said, the search operation is still going on.