Booby traps, considered to be one of the most effective and ancient war tools against enemy forces, appear to be making a comeback with the banned CPI (Maoist) in the recent times. In the last two years, three major booby traps were uncovered by the security forces in the Mallampeta area under Chintoor mandal, on the sensitive Andhra-Chhattisgarh border.
The reason behind this is to deter the AP Greyhounds from undertaking cross-border operations, from Andhra Pradesh into the Sukma region of Chhattisgarh. The border along the A.P. and Chhattisgarh is around 45 km and the entire region between Chintoor in Alluri Sitarama Raju (ASR) district in A.P. and Sukma in Chhattisgarh is considered to be sensitive, as the Maoist presence in Sukma is considered to be good enough.
