Acting on a tip-off, personnel of joint forces went to Panchami and Pukhuria villages and recovered the can bombs, ASP Mukesh Kumar said.
The five cans contained 50 kg explosives in total.
When the securitymen were returning after detaining two local men in connection with the recovery, a large group of women surrounded them and demanded that the duo be freed, Kumar said.
Following an altercation, the women managed to snatch the two villagers from the security men.
The women, from the women's wing of the Maoist-backed People's Committee against Police Atrocities, later took out a procession to the town here and were stopped by the police at Paper Mill More.
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